A Flavour of the book: “In
the film they are to make of my life, it turns out that I am not to be played
by Jude Law at all… I am to be played by Dean Gaffney… Dean f*cking Gaffney, can you believe
it? Once Robbie Jackson from EastEnders…
In person, he’s probably lovely.
In character, he had hair like a footballer and skin like a leper in an
oil-slick…”
The Authortrek View: At
first it seems as though Overexposure is caught in the very
superficiality of the world that it is portraying, and it takes quite a while
before you sympathise with the main character, Macaulay Lewis. Overexposure features a whole
host of celebrities, who are employed for comic effect (although Hugo Rifkind never quite gets
Graham Norton’s voice right).
Inevitably, with so much humour thrown in, some of the jokes fall flat,
but there are some great laughs to be had from Overexposure. In particular, I found it very amusing
that Mac’s girlfriend, Lucy, doesn’t even know his name. In contrast to the light humour, there
is a concurrent plotline featuring a serial rapist that sits somewhat
uncomfortably within the novel, which was not all that credible and could have
been handled a tad more sensitively, à la Serena Mackesy
in The Temp. The plot of Overexposure is not
overly convincing either. However,
Overposure is very entertaining, and Hugo Rifkind has succeeded in
producing a fun, frothy read for the Heat generation.
To find out more about the
author, please visit our Hugo Rifkind page.
Press Reviews: "An
arch, laugh out loud thriller." The
Times
"A shifty burglar, a sleazy hack and more celebs
than Hello! A superb comedy of manners." Daily Mirror
"Extremely funny,
incredibly fast paced" Jenny Colgan
"Light enough to take
to the beach, but there's depth under all the glitter, too." Independent on Sunday
"Sharp, readable and
entertaining." Scotland on Sunday
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