Labels:text | screenshot | font | number OCR: : Page 1 of 4 < K < CONTENTS > > >> WHAT CAITLIN DID NEXT free-thinking parents offered her the Caitlin Moran wrote her first novel choice of going to school or staying at the age of 13. She found a at home. She chose the latter - and publisher who thought "The Chronicles spent the next three years moping around. "I wanted to know why I of Narmo" wasn't bad for a first attempt and decided to print 25,000 didn't have a social life and why I copies. It sold out. wasn't on Channel 4 - that kind of Now 18, Caitlin hasn't been resting thing. Then I realised it wasn't on her laurels since this early going to be handed to me on a plate. I'd have to do it myself." So she success, There is to be a sitcom of the book, which Caitlin will be changed her name from Catherine to writing and casting, She is a Caitlin - because she had read the freelance journalist, is frequently name in a Jilly Cooper novel and on radio, has made some films for thought it was "brilliant" - then "The Young Bank Show" and next week dyed her hair red. "I'd always wanted returns as presenter of "Naked City" red hair since I read 'Anne of Green - the most happening music Gables." Up to the age of fifteen Cat programme on the box since "The Tube" admits she would have been willing to But Caitlin - or Cat as she is give up watching TV altogether if known - is not the product of a media only she could have become Anne: "She dynasty, or a public school Was so cool," nurturing, She's the eldest of eight Cat had now discovered music and children who were all brought up in a went around humming Hendrix and three-bedroomed council house in Joplin. "It was like The Lion, The Wolverhampton. Witch and the Wardrobe," she says, At school, Cat says "I was the "HMV was my wardrobe," By the time basic misfit." When she was 11 her she was 13 the novel was under way and a year later she began writing
