Sick of Being Me

<p><em>Sick of Being Me </em>is the alternately exhilarating and harrowing story of guitarist Paul Hazelwood from his childhood on a London council estate where he nurtures his dreams of stardom to his agonising realisation on the cusp of his thirties that talent doesn't necessarily bring success. Egan spurns sensationalism to portray the reality of the life of a struggling musician. Similar authenticity informs the drug scenes which reveal the touching pain that can be hidden beneath an unpleasant junkie exterior.</p><p>Vulnerable truthful moving and beautiful <em>Sick of Being Me </em>is one of the great coming-of-age novels of our time.</p>