So Moranthology doesn’t fit perfectly into the category of “memoir” but… you really need some Caitlin Moran in your life if you haven’t let her in already.
Moran is something of a wunderkind, first discovered at the age of 15 living on a British housing estate. From there she won numerous writing competitions and grants for her potent, edgy brand of writing, and has been writing columns across Britain since she was eighteen. Her first book How To Be A Woman was a bestseller, so now she brings us Moranthology, a collection of her best writing.
Perhaps due to her eccentric upbringing, Moran is able to extract wild humour from the most mundane subjects:
“Ghostbusters, Twitter, caffeine, panic attacks, Michael Jackson’s memorial service, being a middle-class marijuana addict, Doctor Who, binge-drinking, Downton Abbey, pandas, my own tragically early death, and my repeated failure to get anyone to adopt the nickname I have chosen for myself: ‘Puffin’.”
Her mid-90s references will appeal to anyone from that generation, but her analogies and similes are simply priceless. For instance, describing a contestant from a reality singing show as having “a voice like a goose being kicked down a slide”.
Praise: “I adore, admire and – more – am addicted to Caitin Moran’s writing” – Nigella Lawson
About the author: CAITLIN MORAN was brought up on a council estate in Wolverhampton, where she was home-educated, wore a poncho, and had boys throw stones at her whilst calling her ‘a bummer’. Understandably keen to forge a career and move on, Caitlin won the Observer’s Young Reporter of the Year competition at 15, and published her first novel, The Chronicles of Narmo, in the same year.
Find Out More: Moranthology on The Nile
Moran is something of a wunderkind, first discovered at the age of 15 living on a British housing estate. From there she won numerous writing competitions and grants for her potent, edgy brand of writing, and has been writing columns across Britain since she was eighteen. Her first book How To Be A Woman was a bestseller, so now she brings us Moranthology, a collection of her best writing.
Perhaps due to her eccentric upbringing, Moran is able to extract wild humour from the most mundane subjects:
“Ghostbusters, Twitter, caffeine, panic attacks, Michael Jackson’s memorial service, being a middle-class marijuana addict, Doctor Who, binge-drinking, Downton Abbey, pandas, my own tragically early death, and my repeated failure to get anyone to adopt the nickname I have chosen for myself: ‘Puffin’.”
Her mid-90s references will appeal to anyone from that generation, but her analogies and similes are simply priceless. For instance, describing a contestant from a reality singing show as having “a voice like a goose being kicked down a slide”.
Praise: “I adore, admire and – more – am addicted to Caitin Moran’s writing” – Nigella Lawson
About the author: CAITLIN MORAN was brought up on a council estate in Wolverhampton, where she was home-educated, wore a poncho, and had boys throw stones at her whilst calling her ‘a bummer’. Understandably keen to forge a career and move on, Caitlin won the Observer’s Young Reporter of the Year competition at 15, and published her first novel, The Chronicles of Narmo, in the same year.
Find Out More: Moranthology on The Nile
