Brief blurb: Drug addict .. slut .. bitch .. feminist .. anti-feminist .. .rook wife .. rock widow .. rock chic .. riot grrrl.  Following the death of husband Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love has had labels slapped on her like a well-travelled suitcase. As first time biographer, Poppy Z Brite points out, ‘Courtney has always been surrounded by chaos, triumph, pain and glamour, Some of it she has created herself.’ Brite, the author of erotic horror like Swamp Foetus and Exquisite Corpse, is interested neither in lauding or condemning her subject but only in chronicling the first thirty-two years of a fascinating life.

Random quote: ‘I'm having the baby, it’s coming out, he’s puking, he’s passing out…’