Meet Viva Cohen: her bedroom walls are plastered with posters of silver-screen legends, and underneath her school uniform she wears vintage thigh-high stockings. Her best friends are a drugged-out beauty queen and an aging rock star. She lives in London with her gay uncle Manny.
A bitingly funny and fiercely intelligent first novel, Namedropper takes you on a rowdy romp from London to Los Angeles, where Viva and her two best friends search for love, experience, and Jack Nicholson. It's a wild ride as she uncovers the icon in every person she meets. Diane Leslie author of Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime Viva Cohen, the young, funny, observant, well-read, music-savvy, cineaste, malephile narrator of Namedropper, suggests that Emma Forrest may well be the Jane Austen of the techno-generation.