@2@@18@@20@'Biting, funny, brilliantly subversive' Louise O'Neill@21@@19@@16@@18@@20@'Highly-polished satire . . . Hilarious' Sunday Times@21@@19@@16@@18@@20@'Funny, fierce, feminist' Red@21@@19@@3@@2@Cat Ono, feminist powerhouse and high-flying editor at @18@RAGE @19@magazine, knows the price of fashion. Her friend - found dead in her office - just paid it. @3@@2@Everyone thinks Hillary dieted to death, but Cat suspects if beauty kills, it'd take more than that. She's sure she can match the investigating skills of the smart (and conveniently hot) Detective Mark Hutton, solve the case and achieve sartorial perfection.@3@@2@But when Cat goes undercover, she gets in over her head. Soon she's snared in a very stylish web of drugs, sex, lies and moisturizer that will change her look - and outlook - forever.@3@

Bourland's delightfully snarky debut leans heavily on satire, poking razor-sharp fun at the beauty industry and the cut-throat world that Bess and Cat inhabit, and some scenes are laugh-out-loud funny. However, for all the outrageous (and eye-opening) focus on makeup, beauty, fashion, and of course, the desire to be thin, there are tantalizing glimpses of the vulnerability and insecurities beneath the surface. Death by beauty was never so much fun.

Vorwort
Wildly entertaining, sharp and acclaimed satire on the fashion industry: Devil Wears Prada with a murderous twist

Autorentext
Barbara Bourland is the author of the critically acclaimed I'll Eat When I'm Dead, a Refinery29 Best Book of 2017 and an Irish Independent Book of the Year, published in the US, UK and Israel. A former freelance writer and web producer for titles at Condé Nast and Hearst, she now lives in Baltimore with her husband and their dogs. Fake Like Me is her second novel.

Klappentext

'Biting, funny, brilliantly subversive' Louise O'Neill
'Highly-polished satire . . . Hilarious' Sunday Times
'Funny, fierce, feminist' Red

Cat Ono, feminist powerhouse and high-flying editor at RAGE magazine, knows the price of fashion. Her friend - found dead in her office - just paid it.

Everyone thinks Hillary dieted to death, but Cat suspects if beauty kills, it'd take more than that. She's sure she can match the investigating skills of the smart (and conveniently hot) Detective Mark Hutton, solve the case and achieve sartorial perfection.

But when Cat goes undercover, she gets in over her head. Soon she's snared in a very stylish web of drugs, sex, lies and moisturizer that will change her look - and outlook - forever.

Zusammenfassung
Wildly entertaining, sharp and acclaimed satire on the fashion industry: Devil Wears Prada with a murderous twist