Anthony Kavanagh

*THE HEARTBREAKING, FUNNY AND SHOCKINGLY HONEST MEMOIR FROM ANTHONY KAVANAGH, AKA 90S POP STAR AND HEARTTHROB, KAVANA* 'My name is Anthony, but some people know me as Kavana or Kav. I've been called a pop star, a has-been, a heartthrob and a mess. I've been all of them. I once thought fame would give me everything I wanted. Wrong wish. This is my story about life as a 90s pop star, a lost decade in Hollywood, addiction, homelessness, and what it's like being an outsider, desperately trying to get back into a world that's moved on without you. But when things fall apart, it doesn't always mean it's the end. Sometimes it can be the making of you, just not the version you expected.' Pop Scars is a story told with fearless honesty that's as funny as it is heartbreaking, chronicling the highs, the lows and the chaos of hitting rock bottom and then finding out that rock bottom has a basement.

<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>