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Within 10 years, she was living it up in New York as a beauty editor at Conde 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWitty, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew 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.\u003c\/em\u003e – Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI LOVE this book\u003c\/em\u003e – Catriona Innes, Cosmopolitan Magazine UK\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn unputdownable, brilliantly written rollercoaster\u003c\/em\u003e – Shappi Khorsandi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrilliantly written and harrowing and funny and honest\u003c\/em\u003e – Louise France, The Times Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEasily one of the most anticipated memoirs of the year... 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