Zawe Ashton

A smart, funny and well-written take-down of modern showbiz

Smart, funny, vivid, honest, dark, timely

An entertaining and original memoir touching on career, life and identity. It is an enjoyable read, despite the humiliating tales of auditions or filming situations where she is physically assessed, objectified or subject to casual racism. Understandably there is an undertone of rage in her keen observations

Character Breakdown embraces darkness while also being a wickedly absurd look at modern show business

A meditation on womanhood, failure and performance…her experiences and conflicts feel universal…it is very funny

Sees the hotshot actress/writer/director who you might remember as mentalist Vod in student sitcom, Fresh Meat, look at the absurdity of pretending to be other people for a living

An extremely imaginative and well-written volume that has the pace and page-turning attractions of a novel… a fine, painfully honest autobiographer/ novelist… [and] a good, witty read but which also gives purchasers a real insight into life in the acting profession today

I loved it...smart, funny, highly original and with an unconventional narrative that asked deep questions about the roles we all play in our lives

A fascinating look at the fine line between performance and life, written with style

Entertaining... Funny, revealing, shocking and inventively structured

'Entertaining...revealing, shocking' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 
 
'Sublime' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 
 
Actor and director Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of today's world 
 
Zawe Ashton has been acting since she was six. She has played many different roles, from 'cute little girl' to 'assassin with attitude', Oscar Wilde's Salome to St Trinian's schoolgirl by way of Fresh Meat's Vod. 
 
In Character Breakdown, Zawe scrolls through a version of her life. Or is it a version of her art? Or something in between. In it, she encounters glamour, horror, absurdity and questions like: is a life spent more on performance than reality any life at all? 
 
'Smart, funny, vivid, honest, dark, timely' The Times 
 
'A smart, funny and well-written take-down of modern showbiz' Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail 
 
Selected by Bernardine Evaristo as one her 20 books by Black British Womxn Writers

Zawe Ashton

Praise for Character Breakdown

A very great book

A smart, funny and well-written take-down of modern showbiz

Smart, funny, vivid, honest, dark, timely

A very great book

A smart, funny and well-written take-down of modern showbiz

Smart, funny, vivid, honest, dark, timely

A very great book

A smart, funny and well-written take-down of modern showbiz

Smart, funny, vivid, honest, dark, timely

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