Summary
Johnny is a failed drama school student with a wobbly singing voice who in the book's early pages takes to prostitution in order to enjoy an opulence above his legal income and talent. Clary creates a world of fictionalised celebrity only a little more fantastic and tacky than the real one, in which Liverpudlian girl bands are named Rough, Sigourney Weaver and Paul O'Grady turn up inebriated in a bar, drama students mount musicals about Wendy Richard and Catherine spots Esther Rantzen in a lift on the way up to make-up.
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
Fiction Drop dead gorgeous Murder Most Fab Julian Clary Ebury Press, 4i6pp, £16.99
Readers of his New Statesman column may feel they have shared every moment of this novel's tortuous gestation, but Julian Clary has delivered quite something. ...See the full content of this document
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