How to Murder Your Life

<p><i><br>'I was twenty-six years old and an associate <b>beauty editor</b> at Lucky one of the <b>top fashion magazines</b> in America. That&#146;s all that most people knew about me. But beneath the surface I was full of secrets: I was a <b>drug addict</b> for one. <b>A pillhead</b>. I was also an <b>alcoholic-in-training</b> who guzzled warm Veuve Clicquot after work alone in my boss&#146;s office with the door closed; a conniving and manipulative <b>uptown doctor-shopper</b>; a salami-and-provolone-puking <b>bulimic</b> who spent a hundred dollars a day on binge foods when things got bad (and they got bad often); a weepy </i><i>wobbly wildly <b>hallucination-prone insomniac</b>; a tweaky self-mutilator; a slutty and self-loathing<b> downtown party girl</b>; and &#150; perhaps most of all &#150; a lonely weirdo. <b>But you know I had access to some really fantastic self-tanner.</b>'</i><br><br>By the age of 15 Cat Marnell longed to work in the glamorous world of women's magazines - but was also addicted to the ADHD meds prescribed by her father. Within 10 years she was living it up in New York as a beauty editor at Cond&#233; Nast with a talent for 'doctor-shopping' that secured her a never-ending supply of prescribed amphetamines. Her life had become a twisted merry-go-round of parties and pills at night while she struggled to hold down her high-profile job during the day. <br><br>Witty magnetic and penetrating - prompting comparisons to Bret Easton Ellis and Charles Bukowski - Cat Marnell reveals essential truths about her generation brilliantly uncovering the many aspects of being an addict with pin-sharp humour and beguiling style.<br><br><br><b>'New York's enfant terrible...Her talent has resided in her uncanny ability to write about addiction from the untidy unsafe unhappy epicentre of the disease rather than from some writerly remove.' </b><i>Telegraph<br></i><i><br>'</i><b>I LOVE this book' </b>Catriona Innes <i>Cosmopolitan Magazine UK</i><br><br><b>'An unputdownable brilliantly written rollercoaster' </b>Shappi Khorsandi<br><br><b>'Brilliantly written and harrowing and funny and honest' </b>Louise France <i>The Times Magazine <br></i><br><b>'Easily one of the most anticipated memoirs of the year...[Marnell's] got an inimitable style (and oh my god so many have tried) and a level of talent so high it's impossible not to be rooting for her.' </b><i>NYLON</i></p>