Meet Viva Cohen: 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 aging rock star. She lives in London with her gay uncle Manny.
A bitingly funny and fiercely intelligent first novel,
Namedropper takes you on a rowdy romp from London to Los Angeles, where Viva and her two best friends search for love, experience, and Jack Nicholson. It's a wild ride as she uncovers the icon in every person she meets.
"Namedropper" is the hilarious, razor-sharp tale of a star-struck teen who takes her style from Hollywood's leading ladies and turns her everyday life into a blockbuster production. "Utterly endearing and very funny".--"Elle".
Diane Leslie author of
Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime Viva Cohen, the young, funny, observant, well-read, music-savvy, cineaste, malephile narrator of
Namedropper, suggests that Emma Forrest may well be the Jane Austen of the techno-generation.