When journalist Abigail Long is called to her boss's office she fears the worse - dismissal. Instead she is offered her own celebrity column in the newspaper she writes for. What could be better, attending star studded parties amd premieres and being paid to write about them? But every silver lining has a cloud, as Abigail finds out as she spirals into drug abuse after finding herself the subject of her fellow journalists' attentions.
Abigail comes across in this book as silly, self-centred and shallow, but in reality this is a prime illustration of how our society has become obssessed with fame and the famous. I'm sure many of the readers of celebrity gossip magazines and columns would set aside common sense in order to fit in with the "stars" they read about and whose lives they follow so avidly. While I found Abigail intensely irritating I can see that she is not unique, and also not unique in not seeing what is right in front of her face in her search for success. A quick read, but not a very satisfying one.
I have read this book toward the Four Month reading challeng and the Typically British reading challenge.
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