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Becky - Hardcover

May, Sarah

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9781529066913: Becky
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1529066913 ISBN 13: 9781529066913
Publisher: Picador UK, 2023

Synopsis

'Spiky, clever, funny' – Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters
'Brilliant, propulsive . . . A riot'– Maddie Mortimer, author of Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
'A delicious gallop through 90s tabloid London' – Sam McAlister, author of Scoops

It’s peak 90s London. Shoulder pads are out, crimped hair is in, supermodels are known by their first names, and Becky Sharp will do anything to escape her past.

From mingling with tabloid millionaires to trading favours and fortunes with royalty, she will stop at nothing to reach the top of the career ladder at the Mercury newspaper. Landing scoop after scoop, Becky ruthlessly carves a place for herself in a society determined to ignore her. These are the biggest stories and scandals of the decade, and she has something to do with every one of them.

But Becky may have more in common with the people she writes about than she thinks – what takes a lifetime to build takes only a moment to destroy . . .

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About the Author

Sarah May has collaborated extensively with The Mayhem Company, which has been devising and staging boundary breaking productions since 2001 and whose core members are young non-professional actors living and working in London. Previous work for the theatre includes urban fairytale Hamelyn Heights (Young Vic Studio); 100° Fahrenheit (Southwark Playhouse), a study of corruption in the black religious community; Deluxe (Southwark Playhouse) about a fatal shooting in a south London school; and See You Tomorrow (Southwark Playhouse), the company's response to a former member's decision to join the British Army and serve in Iraq. Real Life Sex Makes Baby (Royal Festival Hall, 2009) was written to mark SE1 United's hosting The Mayhem Company at Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, and her latest collaboration with The Mayhem Company, Elephant 21, about the regeneration of London's Elephant and Castle, was performed in July 2010 at Unit 215, Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre. You can find out more about Sarah's work with The Mayhem Company at www.themayhemcompany.net. Sarah has also written the following works of fiction: The Nudist Colony (1999), Spanish City (2002); The Internationals (2003) and the Rise and Fall trilogy: The Queen of Suburbia (2006), A Domestic Diva (2008) and The Wonder Girls (2009). Her play The Butterfly Club was published by Methuen Drama in Producer's Choice: Six Plays for Young Performers in 2010.

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Publisher
Picador UK
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1529066913
ISBN 13 
9781529066913
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
432
Rating
  • 3.46 out of 5 stars
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