Spin/Spin/
“At once comic, heart-breaking, and life-affirming.”
—Tish Cohen, author of Town House
“Imagine if Bridget Jones fell into a million little pieces, flew over the cuckoo’s nest, and befriended Lindsay Lohan along the way, and you are beginning to grasp the literary roller coaster ride that is Catherine McKenzie’s Spin.”
—Leah McLaren, author of The Continuity Girl
How far would you go to get what you wanted? That’s the question author Catherine McKenzie addresses in Spin—a delectable debut novel that takes readers into the connected worlds of pop culture, tabloid journalism, and celebrity rehab. The story of a newbie undercover gossip reporter who follows a troubled starlet into a rehab clinic intending to dig up all the dirt she possibly can, Spin is smart, hip, utterly engaging contemporary fiction in the vein of Jennifer Weiner and Emily Giffin.
Hired by her favorite music magazine The Line to follow a young female celebrity into rehab and get the inside story, gossip reporter Kate “Sober” Sandford, a notorious lush, finds her assignment getting complicated when she realizes that she may be in rehab for a reason. Original. 50,000 first printing.
Hired by her favorite music magazine to follow a celebrity into rehab and get the inside story, gossip reporter Kate Sandford, a notorious lush, finds her assignment getting complicated when she realizes she may be in rehab for a reason.
"Kate, an undercover newbie gossip reporter, follows a celebrity into rehab to dish all the dirt--but things are always more complicated than they seem in the first charming novel by Catherine McKenzie"--
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- Toronto : Harpercollins; 2012
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