Pop Scars : A memoir on fame, addiction and the dark side of 90s pop - 'Unflinching and unmissable', HEAT Magazine

The shocking, tell-all memoir from '90s popstar and heart-throb formerly known as Kavana.

<p><b> The shocking, tell-all memoir from '90s popstar and heart-throb formerly known as Kavana</b><br><br>Born in Manchester in 1977, Anthony Kavanagh's rise to fame was stratospheric, scoring a record deal at the age of just eighteen and winning the much-coveted <i>Smash Hits</i> Male Artist of the Year Award in 1997, all the while achieving top ten hits, appearing on countless magazine covers, performing on <i>Top of the</i> <i>Pops</i> and gigging alongside the Spice Girls. The stuff that dreams are made of. <br><br>But Anthony - or Kavana as he came to be known - was also trying to keep his sexuality a secret while navigating his way through an industry where image was everything; where his success depended on him having to be exactly who he wasn't.<br><br>What followed was a dark and dangerous spiral into addiction, an illness that would insidiously follow and baffle him for years to come. <i>Pop Scars </i>is a story told with fearless honesty that's at times as funny as it is heartbreaking, chronicling the highs, the lows, the self-destruction and the chaos of hitting rock bottom and then finding out that rock bottom has a basement.<br><br><b>Thirty years on, Anthony is ready to tell his jaw-dropping story. <i>Pop Scars</i> is a book about teenage stardom, fame, addiction, grief and - ultimately - survival and sobriety.</b></p>