Gimme More

by Liza Cody

Once she was the face that launched a thousand hits. Now Birdie Walker - rock widow and con-woman - is scratching at the dark heart of the music industry. Twenty years ago Birdie and her rockstar lover, Jack, were the most famous couple alive, but it is a past she can no longer live up to.

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Paperback

First published March 1, 2000

About the author

Liza Cody (real name Liza Nassim) is an English crime fiction writer.

Reviews

[Gesa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Birdie Walker is a fascinating character, and her view on the world, as unkind as it can be sometimes, felt bold and refreshing. Too bad the ending seemed a little too happy and predictable, which the rest of the book was not.

[Marsha · Rating 5 out of 5]

A new character from Liza Cody. Possibly her best. Birdie Walker - rock widow.

So wonderful. I think this book is out of print but can be picked up used.

[Marta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gimme more (2000)

Birdie è un personaggio fantastico, che mette in ombra tutti gli altri: e infatti a tirare i fili, a dire\non dire, a giocare dieci partite diverse contemporaneamente non si può che rimanere soli.

[Meredith Galman · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very different book from Cody's Anna Lee series, Gimme More is a story of the seamy underbelly of the music business, where the right hand specializes in not knowing what the left hand is doing, where the wheels within the wheels reveal only more wheels. Birdie Walker is a fabulous heroine, an ex-rocker chick who gathers legends like lint, a survivor in a world where only the martyred are valued, a hard intelligence whose former perfect beauty has kept her from ever being taken seriously. Birdie is neither kind nor honest -- she has lived by her wits for years, indulging in an endless series of cons as much for the rush of power they give her as for the money she makes -- but she has her own integrity and protects what is truly valuable to her against the forces of commercialization and trivialization. In some ways, this book reminds me strongly of Thomas Maxwell's The Suspense Is Killing Me, another story of a search for the legacy of a rock star who is suspected of being not quite as dead as he's made out to be.

[Angeligna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Imperdibile per chiunque abbia perso un sacco di tempo a seguire band e artisti e a illudersi di essere diverso dalla massa dei fan.

[Procyon Lotor · Rating 4 out of 5]

solo una groupie? Passato praticamente inosservato, e dire che le chitarre elettriche hanno fatto uscire i coni dalle spie di palco! Forse qui fra aquiloni, numeri primi e ricci principini e siddarthvader c'� una confusione, una maleducazione. Vado a bermi un whiski al roxi e quasi quasi me lo rileggo. Colonna sonora: AC/DC, If you want blood you've got it, AC/DC, Live

[Angie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a lend from a friend and I enjoyed it, but the ending wasn't what I wanted and was kind of a disappointment. From the rest of the book I guess I was hoping for more of a twist or inventive conclusion.

[Claudia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stupendo libro sul mondo del rock, che tutto crea e tutto distrugge, a partire dal marito della protagonista, Birdie, morto in un tragico incidente anni prima. Finale a sorpresa!

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of fun from Liza Cody.