Julie Burchill
Author of Sugar Rush
About the Author
Image credit: Julie Burchill, Foto: Pennie Smith
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Works by Julie Burchill
Made In Brighton: From the grand to the gutter: Modern Britain as seen from beside the sea (2007) 11 copies
Associated Works
Damage Control: Women on the Therapists, Beauticians, and Trainers Who Navigate Their Bodies (2007) — Contributor — 53 copies, 3 reviews
The Modern Maiden's Handbook: The Shameless Girls' Guide to Blameless Living (2007) — Preface, some editions — 2 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1959-07-03
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Brislington Comprehensive School
- Occupations
- journalist
novelist - Organizations
- Guardian (columnist)
- Relationships
- Parsons, Tony (husband|1979|divorced|1984)
Landesman, Cosmo (husband|1985|divorced|1992)
Raven, Charlotte (relationship|1995)
Raven, Daniel (husband|2004) - Short biography
- Julie Burchill (born 3 July 1959, Frenchay, Bristol) is an English writer and columnist known for her provocative comments. Beginning as a writer for the New Musical Express at the age of 17, she has written for newspapers such as The Sunday Times and The Guardian. She is a self-declared "militant feminist".[1] She has several times been involved in legal action resulting from her work. She is also an author and novelist, her 1989 novel Ambition being a bestseller, and her 2004 novel Sugar Rush being adapted for television.
- Nationality
- England
UK - Birthplace
- Frenchay, Bristol, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Brighton & Hove, England, UK
- Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
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When Kim’s father makes her move from her posh girls school to the school fool of trouble makers. Sure she’s not going to fit in for being thought a snob, she’s surprised when Sugar, the most popular girl at school, befriends her. As Sugar leads Kim down the road of alcohol and drugs, Kim experiences things she never has before, including feelings for Sugar. Is she falling for her new best friend?
I’m so glad I never really saw the TV programme before I read this. From what I know of show more the programme, some of it is different from the book, like Sugar’s race for instance, which is a small but important part of the book. I’m not too sure if I liked this book. It was good, but I got annoyed Kim some of the time when she wasn’t treated too well. I suppose heterosexual or homosexual, though, we all get a little blinded when we really like some, and make mistakes, so I can’t really fault her too much.
It was sad seeing that Kim’s home life wasn’t too great, with her mum leaving home, but I got annoyed with how a lot of the book was of Kim and Sugar doing practically the same things over and over, and Kim agonizing over whether or not her and Sugar were an item. It was just all a little bit samey.
I don’t really know what I expected, but the only thing that makes this lesbian fiction is the two girls, but it’s a story all girls know too well, the only difference was that Sugar wasn’t male. There isn’t really anything on the hardships of being homosexual; there’s no coming out to parents, no having to deal with homophobia, no being worried about what people will think. There is however a few occasions when guys like that the girls are kissing, which Sugar uses to her advantage.
The front cover warns that the book contains explicit content, but I don’t know what was explicit about it. The sex was mentioned, some sexual acts were hinted at, but we never actually got to “see” anything, and there wasn’t any detail. Compared to some other books, this novel is quite tame.
I don’t think Sugar Rush was especially amazing; there wasn’t anything all that special about it. However, it has spiked my interest enough for me to want to pick up the sequel, Sweet, to find out what happens later on to the main characters. Overall, and ok book. show less
I’m so glad I never really saw the TV programme before I read this. From what I know of show more the programme, some of it is different from the book, like Sugar’s race for instance, which is a small but important part of the book. I’m not too sure if I liked this book. It was good, but I got annoyed Kim some of the time when she wasn’t treated too well. I suppose heterosexual or homosexual, though, we all get a little blinded when we really like some, and make mistakes, so I can’t really fault her too much.
It was sad seeing that Kim’s home life wasn’t too great, with her mum leaving home, but I got annoyed with how a lot of the book was of Kim and Sugar doing practically the same things over and over, and Kim agonizing over whether or not her and Sugar were an item. It was just all a little bit samey.
I don’t really know what I expected, but the only thing that makes this lesbian fiction is the two girls, but it’s a story all girls know too well, the only difference was that Sugar wasn’t male. There isn’t really anything on the hardships of being homosexual; there’s no coming out to parents, no having to deal with homophobia, no being worried about what people will think. There is however a few occasions when guys like that the girls are kissing, which Sugar uses to her advantage.
The front cover warns that the book contains explicit content, but I don’t know what was explicit about it. The sex was mentioned, some sexual acts were hinted at, but we never actually got to “see” anything, and there wasn’t any detail. Compared to some other books, this novel is quite tame.
I don’t think Sugar Rush was especially amazing; there wasn’t anything all that special about it. However, it has spiked my interest enough for me to want to pick up the sequel, Sweet, to find out what happens later on to the main characters. Overall, and ok book. show less
Okay I re-read this (10/12) because I'd forgotten I'd read it (in 10/9/10) and it was actually quite gripping, like an episode of Skins. There's some weird race stuff which I need to think more about, that sort of Sarah Silverman-y "edgy" humor which I actually kind of hate most of the time but there's something real going on in this book so I just went with it. I don't know. I also couldn't parse the class stuff, but I think the narrator is meant to be from a more posh background, or show more middle-class? The various schoolgirl romances were well done, so that's something. show less
Mostly enjoyable rants from Julie Burchill who has made a whole career on being able to rant about anything that is against general public opinion and who writes very well. I have no idea if she actually believes in what she so passionately espouses or she just wants to be a public journalistic iconoclast. I hope she believes in it though, because I do hold so many of her points of view myself and reading the book, I was cheering her along all the way.
How tough can one teenage girl's life be? Her mom, always her "friend" and never her mom, has walked out and left her family a shell of what it once was. As she struggles through, she is moved from one posh school to the roughest in the neighborhood.
As if all of that isn't hard enough - she then falls in love with the IT girl at her school - her new best friend. A girl who's always in the spot light, always wild and free and carefree - Sugar gets her into a world she's never dreamed of.
A show more roller coaster ride of one girl finding love and then.....fumbling around and finding herself. A good story even with its graphic and gory ways. show less
As if all of that isn't hard enough - she then falls in love with the IT girl at her school - her new best friend. A girl who's always in the spot light, always wild and free and carefree - Sugar gets her into a world she's never dreamed of.
A show more roller coaster ride of one girl finding love and then.....fumbling around and finding herself. A good story even with its graphic and gory ways. show less
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