★ 05/28/2018
Moran’s funny, female-centric writing is a treasure ... this feels just right for 2018.
Moran’s semiautobiographical tale of a young writer finding her way in the mid-90s London rock scene pops and fizzes with the energy of those cool Britannia times—but her smart, nervy take on female selfhood and sexuality feels bracingly of now.
A joyous, yelping novel about learning to love things without apology or irony... Moran reminds us that playing it cool is a waste of time.
“How to Be Famous bursts open the coming-of-age drama and leaves, in its wake, a hilarious, utterly original, unabashedly feminist comedy. Just read it.
A subversive celebration of strong, smart young women.
Laugh-out-loud funny, sweetly romantic and fiercly angry. Often all at once.
Sparkly and joyous…Moran writes with a fierce and tender protectiveness of teenage girls like Johanna, who are chewed up and spat out by the glamorous adult worlds they are trying to make their way into.
Glorious and life-enhancing... Funny, philosophical, and poignant in equal measure.
Hilarious.
Funny, warm, insightful… Moran has always been a gloriously acute and funny writer, and the combination of memoir and make-believe here gives her plenty of scope to exercise her considerable ability to entertain.
A rollicking fantasy...How to be Famous rewrites a familiar near-past heroically, dispensing justice and leaving a rosy, satisfied afterglow.
Buckle up for the magical mystery tour that is life with Dolly Wilde…Stylewise, Ms. Moran is a breath of fresh air in the often stuffy, overly serious world of women’s fiction. Her sentences cackle with sass but also reveal the vulnerability that lies beneath many a modern woman’s confident exterior…. The heart of Ms. Moran’s feminist fairy tale, however is its celebration of woman as they are, and not how society would have them be.
Who better than Caitlin Moran to bring fame down to earth with a bump?
Wonderfully original…Hilarious summer fare with a feminist twist.
Moran’s funny, female-centric writing is a treasure ... this feels just right for 2018.
Laugh-out-loud funny, sweetly romantic and fiercly angry. Often all at once.
Funny, warm, insightful… Moran has always been a gloriously acute and funny writer, and the combination of memoir and make-believe here gives her plenty of scope to exercise her considerable ability to entertain.
Caitlin Moran is back with more hilarious, sexy adventures.... Think ‘Pippi Longstocking , but with whiskey,’ Moran recommends.... How to Be Famous explodes with the screams of rock ’n’ roll life, but at its heart it’s an ode to the tenacity, energy and collective power of teenage girls.
Washington Post Book World
Vivid and full of truths…. There’s a point in midlife, when you’re already built, as it were, when the average coming-of-age story starts to feel completely uninteresting. But Moran is so lively, dazzlingly insightful and fun that ‘How to Build a Girl’ transcends any age restrictions.
San Francisco Chronicle on How To Build a Girl
Rallying cries will always have a place in a yet-unfinished movement like feminism, but sometimes storytelling is more effective. The fictional Johanna Morrigan never drops the F-word, but readers can see she’s asking all the right questions.
New York Times Book Review on How To Build a Girl
Wonderfully wise and flat-out hilarious.
People on How To Build a Girl
2018-05-01
★ 08/01/2018
