Humour takes centre stage in Moran's work

Moranthology by Caitlin Moran. Ebury, €15. Reviewed by Anna Carey.

Caitlin Moran: funny and compassionate. Photo: Annabel Staff
Caitlin Moran: funny and compassionate. Photo: Annabel Staff

Moranthology by Caitlin Moran

**Ebury, €15**

**Reviewed by Anna Carey**

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In 1994, journalist Caitlin Moran wrote a review in the now-defunct music weekly Melody Maker that changed her life. Not because it was so brilliant that it made her a household name. But because it was so amazingly nasty that it made Moran, who was still a teenager at the time, completely re-evaluate her own writing. ...