A gritty and hilarious coming-of-age memoir from celebrity make-up artistCarl Stanley.It's the early `80s in Birmingham, and Carl - a nightclubbing,vodka-soaked, drug-fuelled, New Romantic schoolboy - is desperate for thelove his manic-depressive mother has never been able to give.It's the `90s in London, and Carl - now a make-up artist to the likes ofMargaret Thatcher - is stuck on a merry-go-round of clubs, Class A's andcasual sex. A dark family secret has been haunting him for years but hecan't quite put his finger on it...It's the new millennium, and now that his mom's skeletons are out of thecloset, now he's finally sober, will they be able to kiss and make up?