Ugly Betty’s got it bad, but Becky Johnson’s got it worse. Try being the only lesbian on a top women’s fashion magazine, darling...
At 23 years old Rebecca Johnson is the epitome of success: she’s got a jealous-making job working for British society mag Reine, a fab flat in London and a continuous stream of attractive men passing through her sheets. This all sounds rather impressive, but in reality Becks sells the ads, shops in H&M and would rather go home with a girl in Manolos than Prince William in Armani.
She hails from the blue-collar suburbs, but tells everyone she’s from upper crust Eton and neither her champagne supping colleagues nor her working class parents know that she’s gay. Quite partial to three inch stilettos, and convinced that combat boots were sent by the devil, Becks is having more than a little trouble coming to terms with her sexuality and fitting in with the lesbians. Her life has become one big plastic lie and she’s desperate to change it, but can she find true love in a scene filled with multiple piercings and motorbikes?
With a little help from wacky roommate Vron and gay, goth friend Luke, Becks sets out to turn around the disaster that has become her life. There are hellish blind dates with a coke-snorting model booker and bitch troll charity worker, moments of personal guilt and horror as she’s forced to join in with her colleagues’ homophobia in order to maintain her secret, and hysterical high jinx when the world of high society collides with that of her working class family. Of course, confrontation is inevitable when Becks realises that coming out isn’t for the faint-hearted and she finds herself forced to climb over those shoeboxes and out of that closet.
© UKCS Copyright, Alison Aston 2007