Publisher's Synopsis
'A roller-coaster ride through Hollywood . . . The action zings along from page to page and sometimes even from word to word . . . Grant has been round the Hollywood course himself . . . His experience is evident in a gruesomely credible narrative which offers delights from the first sentence to the fade-out' Gerald Kaufman, Daily Telegraph
'An electrifying act . . . By Design satirizes celebrity and the pecking order of Tinseltown where the accepted unit of measurement is billboard billing . . . there are moments of laugh-out-loud hilarity . . . The jokes alone are worth the price of admission' Alasdair Riley, The Times
'Grant's debut novel of cursing Hollywood caricatures is . . . the type of wild yarn we'd like to believe is behind movie-industry rumours of "filming difficulties". Grant . . . clearly loved spinning it' GQ
'This is a book about pretence and self-image; it's about the face you show, and the face you don't show . . . It's very precisely observed; you understand how the glamour and the horror are intertwined . . . Who, you wonder, in the state of prurient curiosity the book produces, would play these characters if the book were to be filmed?' William Leith, Observer
'Vituperative, scurrilous, and extremely funny . . . a fine, vicious little novel' Uncut
