{"product_id":"popscars","title":"Popscars","description":"\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;THE SHOCKING AND HONEST MEMOIR FROM 90'S POPSTAR AND HEARTTHROB FORMERLY KNOWN AS KAVANA\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;'I devoured [\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Pop Scars\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;] 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\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;'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, \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Heat\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; Magazine\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;'Darkly comic', \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Guardian\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;'An incredibly raw, deeply emotional, honest memoir from start to finish', Christine Lampard\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;'An inspiring story from such an inspiring person,' Christie Watson\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;  \u0026lt;br\u0026gt;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 \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Smash Hits\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; Male Artist of the Year Award in 1997, all the while achieving top ten hits, appearing on countless magazine covers, performing on \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Top of the\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Pops\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; and gigging alongside the Spice Girls. The stuff that dreams are made of.  \u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;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.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;What followed was a dark and dangerous spiral into addiction, an illness that would insidiously follow and baffle him for years to come. \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Pop Scars \u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;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.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Thirty years on, Anthony is ready to tell his jaw-dropping story. \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Pop Scars\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; is a book about teenage stardom, fame, addiction, grief and - ultimately - survival and sobriety.\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57192582578558,"sku":"NW9781785123122","price":16.73,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781785123122.jpg?v=1778544735","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/popscars","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}