Bring the House Down

Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie


ISBN
9780008688028
Published
Binding
Paperback

A one woman show A one night stand A one star review

‘A binge-worthy novel … Intimate, real, and really funny' KILEY REID'Exceptional … When a man treats a woman badly, what does he deserve?' JENNIE GODFREY'Fierce, fantastically funny' CLAIRE LOMBARDO'I loved this incendiary debut' EMILIA HART'Bitingly sharp, witty' SOPHIA MACKINTOSHAt the Edinburgh Fringe, vicious theatre critic Alex Lyons is dashing off his latest hatchet job.When Alex meets the show's performer, Hayley, in a bar afterwards, she has no idea who he is. It's only after they've spent the night together that Alex's well-meaning flatmate, Sophie, accidentally shows Hayley the one-star review.Humiliated and furious, Hayley revamps her show into a one-star review of Alex's entire life. Starring every bad thing he's ever done to anyone. Sparing absolutely no details.Hayley's show is an instant hit, setting off a cultural earthquake. With Alex's life in ruins, Sophie has a front-row seat to the carnage. Which is how she discovers that, sometimes, the audience is the most dangerous place to be.Funny and thrilling, for readers of Cleopatra and Frankenstein or Fleishman is in Trouble, this is an extraordinary debut novel about bad art and good art and who gets to say what. About the one-star reviews we wish we could give out, and the personal criticism we would rather not face.
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