'A roller-coaster ride through Hollywood . The action zings along from page to page and sometimes even from word to word . Grant has been round the Hollywood course himself . His experience is evident in a gruesomely credible narrative which offers delights from the first sentence to the fade-out' Gerald Kaufman, Daily Telegraph 'An electrifying act . By Design satirizes celebrity and the pecking order of Tinseltown where the accepted unit of measurement is billboard billing . there are moments of laugh-out-loud hilarity . The jokes alone are worth the price of admission' Alasdair Riley, The Times 'Grant's debut novel of cursing Hollywood caricatures is . the type of wild yarn we'd like to believe is behind movie-industry rumours of "filming difficulties".

Grant . clearly loved spinning it' GQ 'This is a book about pretence and self-image; it's about the face you show, and the face you don't show . It's very precisely observed; you understand how the glamour and the horror are intertwined . Who, you wonder, in the state of prurient curiosity the book produces, would play these characters if the book were to be filmed?' William Leith, Observer 'Vituperative, scurrilous, and extremely funny . a fine, vicious little novel' Uncut.