Emma Forrest – författare

Traditionally, women share their secrets with their hairdressers. But what about their manicurists, masseurs, chi gong teachers, and tattoo artists? In Damage Control, women wax poetic about the experts and gurus who help them love themselves, sharing stories of everything from friendships born in the make-up chair to the utter dismay of a truly horrible haircut.Minnie Driver finally meets a Frenchman who understands her hair . . . and tries to teach her not to hate it.Marian Keyes remembers the blow-dry that pushed her over the edge.Francesca Lia Block tells the ugly story of the plastic surgeon who promised to make her beautiful.Rose McGowan explains why it''s harder to be depressed when you''re glamorous . . . and shows how it takes a village to transform from mere mortal to movie star.Witty and wise, Damage Control is an intimate, sometimes dark, look at our experiences with the professionals who pluck, prod, and pamper every inch of our bodies—and a reminder why we surrender ourselves to their (hopefully) very capable hands.

Meet Viva Cohen: a teenage schoolgirl bombshell. Her bedroom walls are plastered with posters of silver-screen legends, and underneath her school uniform she wears vintage thigh-high stockings. Her best friends are a drugged-out beauty queen and an ageing rock-star, and she lives in London with her gay uncle, Manny. Viva spends her days gate-crashing gigs, skiving her exams and trying to live life as glamorously as her number one icon, Elizabeth Taylor. But then she sets out on a pilgrimage: in search of real love, experience and Jack Nicholson. Wicked-tongued, star-fixated, clever and restless, Viva is like no other girl - and this is no ordinary summer ...

____________‘Shrewd, cool, sure and insightful' - Independent'A literary Lolita' - Vanity Fair‘Electric, irreverent prose. When people talk about voice, this is what they mean' - Ethan Hawke'A gorgeous novel' - Julie Burchill____________In Sadie's head, she's a novelist. In real life, she spends her day searching for the ultimate way to say red at Grrl, an ultra hip make-up company. In her sex life, she's a modern-day Lolita who's never dated a man under forty. Then Sadie falls in love with Marley, a graffiti artist with a firm commitment to another woman: his eight-year-old daughter, Montana. Sadie isn't used to competing for a man's affections and certainly not with a little girl who is uncannily like herself. Real love could just be too grown up for her...Cherries in the Snow is a novel about womanhood, love, and lipstick. Flippant, sexy, acid and smart, this is Emma Forrest at her most dazzling.

_______________''It''s difficult to write a convincing tale of depression that''s also an entertaining romp, but Forrest has done it'' - Sunday Times''An incredibly gifted writer ... I can''t remember the last time I ever read such a blistering, transfixing story of obsession, heartbreak and slow, stubborn healing'' - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love''Emma Forrest is as hilarious as she is wise ... touching, funny and very real'' - Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story''Heartfelt and touching and surprisingly funny. It''s also wincingly, unflinchingly honest'' - Florence Welch, Dazed & Confused_______________Emma Forrest, an English journalist, was twenty-two and living in America when she realised that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity.Lonely, in a dangerous cycle of self-harm and damaging relationships, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist - a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the vibrant and dangerous tide of herself, and who would help her to recover when she tried to end her life.Emma''s loving and supportive family circled around her in panic. She was on the brink of drowning. But she was also still working, still exploring, still writing, and she had also fallen deeply in love. One day, when Emma called to make an appointment with her psychiatrist, she found no one there. He had died, shockingly, at the age of fifty-three, leaving behind a young family. Processing the premature death of a man who''d become her anchor after she''d turned up on his doorstep, she was adrift. And when her significant and all-consuming relationship also fell apart, she was forced to cling to the page for survival.A modern-day fairy tale of New York, Your Voice in My Head is a dazzling and devastating memoir, clear-eyed and shot through with wit. In a voice unlike any other, Emma Forrest explores breakdown and mania, but also the beauty of love - and the heartbreak of loss.

_______________'It's difficult to write a convincing tale of depression that's also an entertaining romp, but Forrest has done it' - Sunday Times'An incredibly gifted writer ... I can't remember the last time I ever read such a blistering, transfixing story of obsession, heartbreak and slow, stubborn healing' - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love'Emma Forrest is as hilarious as she is wise ... touching, funny and very real' - Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story'Heartfelt and touching and surprisingly funny. It's also wincingly, unflinchingly honest' - Florence Welch, Dazed & Confused_______________Emma Forrest, an English journalist, was twenty-two and living in America when she realised that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity.Lonely, in a dangerous cycle of self-harm and damaging relationships, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist - a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the vibrant and dangerous tide of herself, and who would help her to recover when she tried to end her life.Emma's loving and supportive family circled around her in panic. She was on the brink of drowning. But she was also still working, still exploring, still writing, and she had also fallen deeply in love. One day, when Emma called to make an appointment with her psychiatrist, she found no one there. He had died, shockingly, at the age of fifty-three, leaving behind a young family. Processing the premature death of a man who'd become her anchor after she'd turned up on his doorstep, she was adrift. And when her significant and all-consuming relationship also fell apart, she was forced to cling to the page for survival.A modern-day fairy tale of New York, Your Voice in My Head is a dazzling and devastating memoir, clear-eyed and shot through with wit. In a voice unlike any other, Emma Forrest explores breakdown and mania, but also the beauty of love - and the heartbreak of loss.

Meet Viva Cohen: a teenage schoolgirl bombshell. Her bedroom walls are plastered with posters of silver-screen legends, and underneath her school uniform she wears vintage thigh-high stockings. Her best friends are a drugged-out beauty queen and an ageing rock-star, and she lives in London with her gay uncle, Manny. Viva spends her days gate-crashing gigs, skiving her exams and trying to live life as glamorously as her number one icon, Elizabeth Taylor. But then she sets out on a pilgrimage: in search of real love, experience and Jack Nicholson. Wicked-tongued, star-fixated, clever and restless, Viva is like no other girl - and this is no ordinary summer ...

____________''Shrewd, cool, sure and insightful'' - Independent''A literary Lolita'' - Vanity Fair''Electric, irreverent prose. When people talk about voice, this is what they mean'' - Ethan Hawke''A gorgeous novel'' - Julie Burchill____________In Sadie''s head, she''s a novelist. In real life, she spends her day searching for the ultimate way to say red at Grrl, an ultra hip make-up company. In her sex life, she''s a modern-day Lolita who''s never dated a man under forty. Then Sadie falls in love with Marley, a graffiti artist with a firm commitment to another woman: his eight-year-old daughter, Montana. Sadie isn''t used to competing for a man''s affections and certainly not with a little girl who is uncannily like herself. Real love could just be too grown up for her...Cherries in the Snow is a novel about womanhood, love, and lipstick. Flippant, sexy, acid and smart, this is Emma Forrest at her most dazzling.

____________''In Ruby, Forrest has created a Holden Caufield for our shallow, celebrity-obsessed, self-absorbed times ... worthy of Bret Easton Ellis or Jay McInerney. If you ever thought about trying to become a star, let Thin Skin be a warning to you'' - Jon Ronson____________''My talents are: I knew what I wanted. I knew what I didn''t want. I knew at a young age I have the added advantage of scrubbing up nicely when I feel like it, so I look like I have range, when really I just have good skin.''At fifteen Ruby left home, got herself an agent and became a film star. Now twenty, she lives alone, in a world of hotels and fast food. Destructive and charming, cutting is Ruby''s hobby. Her hair, her arms and occasional tattoos - her newest accessory is a bloodline necklace. A seductive blend of heroine and whore, she has left the man who loves her, been fired by her agent, and is starring in a film opposite the delectable Aslan. It is quite possibly her last chance. Striking, funny and razor sharp, Thin Skin is a novel in which we see that sometimes you have to look over the edge in order to see your way back.

The Autumn Radio 2 Book Club PickA Grazia Book of the Year''Honest, provocative and disarmingly funny'' Guardian''Charming, witty and touching, an Eighties Breakfast at Tiffany''s'' DAVID NICHOLLS''Dazzling ... I''m incoherent with love for it'' MARIAN KEYES''Elegant, sexy, tender, wild ... A beautiful, beautiful book'' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH, author of ANIMALSJuly, 1981. London. Shy, working-class Steven finds solace in beauty. Eighteen years old, he dreams of being a fashion designer. He''s also gay, maybe – he hasn''t decided yet. There''s a lot Steven isn''t sure about, like whether he hates himself or thinks he''s amazing.When he ends up in hospital after being brutally attacked by his father, he meets Jasmine, an heiress. Intoxicating, anarchic, fabulous Jasmine. Fuelled by their shared love of fashion, a friendship blossoms and soon, Steven finds himself swept into her hedonistic world, wholly beguiled. However, underneath the glitter and the frivolity, darkness lies. Devastating, dazzling, queer and radical, Royals is a love story between unlikely friends from completely different worlds. It''s about the power of art to transform lives and the power of families to destroy them. It''s about working out who you are and what you want. It''s a tale of giddy happiness, crushing lows and, ultimately, the fragility of lives lived too fast.

The Autumn Radio 2 Book Club PickA Grazia Book of the Year‘An Eighties Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ David Nicholls‘Elegant, sexy, tender wild’ Emma Jane UnsworthJuly, 1981. London.Shy, working-class Steven finds solace in beauty. Eighteen-years-old, he dreams of being a fashion designer. He’s also gay, maybe. There’s a lot Steven isn’t sure about yet. Then a brutal attack lands him in hospital, and he meets Jasmine – intoxicating, anarchic, fabulous Jasmine. Over the course of one summer, their giddy, glorious, maddening friendship will turn Steven’s life upside down – and rewrite his destiny forever.‘Dazzling’ Marian Keyes‘The coolest book you’ll read this year’ Red

'Literary, thrilling, hugely funny, with a massive heart' SARA PASCOE'So wild and gripping' DAVID NICHOLLS'I tore through it' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS'A ferocious coming-of-age story' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH'A truly beautiful story about longing and London' DAISY BUCHANANGail is in trouble at school. Saint Saviours, the exclusive private girls school that she attends on a scholarship, cannot contain her. Impulsive, bored and looking for someone to adore, she is at that dangerous age when you want to be picked up by men and then driven home by your mother.Ezra is rich, powerful and at the top of his game. His comfortable middle age is tainted only by the knowledge that, in his heady youth, he'd loved new wave music and had people killed - and by his crushing anxieties about his teenage daughter, Agata.When Agata starts at Saint Saviour's, Gail and Ezra's paths cross, and with an unstoppable momentum, their lives intertwine in ways more dangerous than either could ever predict.

'Literary, thrilling, hugely funny, with a massive heart' SARA PASCOE'So wild and gripping' DAVID NICHOLLS'I tore through it' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS'A ferocious coming-of-age story' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH'A truly beautiful story about longing and London' DAISY BUCHANANGail is in trouble at school. Saint Saviours, the exclusive private girls school that she attends on a scholarship, cannot contain her. Impulsive, bored and looking for someone to adore, she is at that dangerous age when you want to be picked up by men and then driven home by your mother. Ezra is rich, powerful and at the top of his game. His comfortable middle age is tainted only by the knowledge that, in his heady youth, he'd loved new wave music and had people killed - and by his crushing anxieties about his teenage daughter, Agata. When Agata starts at Saint Saviour's, Gail and Ezra's paths cross, and with an unstoppable momentum, their lives intertwine in ways more dangerous than either could ever predict.

'Beautiful' Nigella Lawson'I adored it' Dolly Alderton'Wonderful' Lisa Taddeo'Intoxicating' Abi MorganWhat happens when your story doesn't end the way you thought it would?When you realise - after getting married and having a baby - that you chose wrong?When the life you dreamt of becomes something you must walk away from?And when you then find yourself not lonely, but elated - elated to be alone with yourself?

The Autumn Radio 2 Book Club PickA Grazia Book of the Year''Honest, provocative and disarmingly funny'' Guardian''Charming, witty and touching, an Eighties Breakfast at Tiffany''s'' DAVID NICHOLLS''Dazzling ... I''m incoherent with love for it'' MARIAN KEYES''Elegant, sexy, tender, wild ... A beautiful, beautiful book'' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH, author of ANIMALSJuly, 1981. London. Shy, working-class Steven finds solace in beauty. Eighteen years old, he dreams of being a fashion designer. He''s also gay, maybe – he hasn''t decided yet. There''s a lot Steven isn''t sure about, like whether he hates himself or thinks he''s amazing.When he ends up in hospital after being brutally attacked by his father, he meets Jasmine, an heiress. Intoxicating, anarchic, fabulous Jasmine. Fuelled by their shared love of fashion, a friendship blossoms and soon, Steven finds himself swept into her hedonistic world, wholly beguiled. However, underneath the glitter and the frivolity, darkness lies. Devastating, dazzling, queer and radical, Royals is a love story between unlikely friends from completely different worlds. It''s about the power of art to transform lives and the power of families to destroy them. It''s about working out who you are and what you want. It''s a tale of giddy happiness, crushing lows and, ultimately, the fragility of lives lived too fast.