Becky

Becky Sharp Is Determined. Determined To Get Away From The Dead-end Town Where She Grew Up, Determined To Make A Place For Herself In High Society And Determined To Reach The Top Of The Career Ladder. And She Doesn’t Care How Many Lives She Ruins In The Process. Set In 90s Tabloid Era London, Becky Charts The Rise And Fall Of A Very Modern Heroine As She Inveigles Her Way Into The Highest Society, Where Tabloid Millionaires Mingle And Trade Favours And Fortunes With Royalty And Aristocracy, Pushes Her Way Up Through The Ranks At The Mercury Newspaper With Manipulative Scoop After Scoop, And Eventually Orchestrates Her Own Dramatic Downfall. These Are Some Of The Biggest News Stories And Scandals Of The Last Few Decades, And Becky Seems To Have Something To Do With Every One Of Them . . . In This Viciously Funny, Darkly Entertaining And Ultimately Moving Read, The Much-loved Classic Vanity Fair Finds Itself In 90s London, And Becky Couldn’t Be A More Perfect Fit. For Fans Of Curtis Sittenfeld’s Eligible, Becky By Sarah May Is Impossible To Put Down. 'Spiky, clever, funny' – Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters 'Brilliant, propulsive . . . A riot'– Maddie Mortimer, author of Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies 'A delicious gallop through 90s tabloid London' – Sam McAlister, author of Scoops It's peak 90s London. Shoulder pads are out, crimped hair is in, supermodels are known by their first names, and Becky Sharp will do anything to escape her past. From mingling with tabloid millionaires to trading favours and fortunes with royalty, she will stop at nothing to reach the top of the career ladder at the Mercury newspaper. Landing scoop after scoop, Becky ruthlessly carves a place for herself in a society determined to ignore her. These are the biggest stories and scandals of the decade, and she has something to do with every one of them. But Becky may have more in common with the people she writes about than she thinks – what takes a lifetime to build takes only a moment to destroy . . . 'A Vanity Fair for the mass-media age' - The Guardian Set against the 90s tabloid era, Becky is the story of Becky Sharp, a young woman determined to make a place for herself in high society and get to the top of the ladder at the newspaper where she works, no matter how many lives she ruins in the process.