Narrator

The unnamed narrator is the novel's protagonist. She was raised in Northwest London by her cold, intelligent and political mother and her kind but uninvolved father -- her parents divorced when she was fourteen. As a child, the narrator frequently attended tap dance lessons and became best friends with Tracey, a talented girl in her class. The two eventually drifted apart as teenagers, when the narrator attended a public school while Tracey went to a private dance academy. The narrator briefly became Goth as a teenager. In college, she entered Media Studies and entered in her first serious relationship with a boy even more political and radical than her mother. After college, the narrator struggled to find a job and was eventually hired at YTV, a popular music channel. The narrator later became a mega-famous pop star named Aimee's assistant for ten years and became subsumed by her...