Pop Scars A memoir on fame addiction and the dark side of 90s pop

<p><b>THE SHOCKING AND HONEST MEMOIR FROM 90'S POPSTAR AND HEARTTHROB FORMERLY KNOWN AS KAVANA</b> <br><br><br><b>'I devoured [<i>Pop Scars</i>] in two sittings. [Anthony] writes about the feelings so well: the sadness that dogged him as a child, the desire to be anyone other than himself and his inability to cope with the shame and the loss when his career runs out of road.'' Marian Keyes<br><br>'Raw, funny and completely fearless... told with the singer's down-to-earth wit, warmth and brutal honesty, this is a wild, moving and ultimately redemptive ride through the highs and horrors of fame, addiction, grief and survival. Unflinching - and unmissable. *****' Lisa Howells, <i>Heat</i> Magazine<br><br>'Darkly comic', <i>Guardian<br><br></i>'An incredibly raw, deeply emotional, honest memoir from start to finish', Christine Lampard<br><br>'An inspiring story from such an inspiring person,' Christie Watson<br></b> <br>Born in Manchester in 1977, Anthony Kavanagh's rise to fame was stratospheric, scoring a record deal at the age of just eighteen and winning the much-coveted <i>Smash Hits</i> Male Artist of the Year Award in 1997, all the while achieving top ten hits, appearing on countless magazine covers, performing on <i>Top of the</i> <i>Pops</i> and gigging alongside the Spice Girls. The stuff that dreams are made of. <br><br>But Anthony - or Kavana as he came to be known - was also trying to keep his sexuality a secret while navigating his way through an industry where image was everything; where his success depended on him having to be exactly who he wasn't.<br><br>What followed was a dark and dangerous spiral into addiction, an illness that would insidiously follow and baffle him for years to come. <i>Pop Scars </i>is a story told with fearless honesty that's at times as funny as it is heartbreaking, chronicling the highs, the lows, the self-destruction and the chaos of hitting rock bottom and then finding out that rock bottom has a basement.<br><br><b>Thirty years on, Anthony is ready to tell his jaw-dropping story. <i>Pop Scars</i> is a book about teenage stardom, fame, addiction, grief and - ultimately - survival and sobriety.</b></p>