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  • By: Julia Fox
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  • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (535 ratings)

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Summary

The hotly anticipated book from ‘one of the all-time pop-culture greats’ (New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams.

‘Intense and compelling’ SUNDAY TIMES

'A gripping and powerful coming-of-age story' TELEGRAPH

‘A masterpiece’ GREG JAMES, BBC RADIO 1

Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media. But all these share the trait for which she is most famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself.

This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in Down the Drain. Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: her parents’ volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs “The Artist”; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son.

Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn’t just capture her evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience—it’s all here, in raw, remarkable and riveting detail.

More than a year before the book's publication, Fox's description of it as "a masterpiece" in a red carpet interview went viral. As always, she was just being honest. Down the Drain is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.

©2023 Julia Fox (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic reviews

‘Most startling of memoirs. Within two chapters I, too, was hooked … Fans of Edie Sedgwick, Cookie Mueller and Courtney Love will die for Down The Drain … I think I just accidentally landed on my book of the year’ Paul Flyn, Evening Standard

‘A gripping and powerful coming-of-age story that exposes the terrible repercussions of childhood neglect, society’s routine exploitation of the female body and the hollowness of celebrity’ Telegraph

‘Intense and compelling’ Sunday Times

‘A masterpiece’ Greg James, Radio 1

‘Fox’s willingness to be honest about what has happened to her and the shame she sometimes feels provides a sharp alternative to most survivor narratives that are publicized. She’s an artist who translates her relationships, her overdoses, and other near-death experiences into the art she makes’ Elizabeth Nicholas, The Cut

'Julia Fox is a genius' The Face

'The story of a woman fighting to reclaim her narrative' Cosmopolitan

'Julia Fox is an iconoclast' New Yorker

'Down The Drain is a page-turner' Gay Times

'She is a woman who has lived a thousand lives' Dazed

'When Fox said that her book was a masterpiece she was stating facts' HUNGER

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Incredible!

One of the best I've listened to! Her whole life story so far was fascinating and heartbreaking.

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Visceral and stunningly addictive

Writing this review after my fourth time listening to this book, it’s truly a masterpiece

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Raw and honest

Brilliantly written, Julia will take you on her crazy life journey , it’s actually crazy what she’s been through. Her strength is truly inspiring.. not for people with weak stomach’s!

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One of the best books I’ve read in a long time

A non cliched account of how addiction friendship and love can be so convoluted. Heartbreaking, vivid and honest. Found myself sobbing in public a few times.

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A relatable dreamer and lover

Truly refreshing tale of a young girl to mother that’s honest about the hardships a person must go through to truly blossom. It made me smile, gasp, cry and think about the beauty’s we meet in our life.

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It was, in fact, a masterpiece

Loved this book, the best one I’ve listened to in ages. Real and raw and Julia’s voice is heaven.

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Raw, honest real entertainment

Absolutely loved it. Looking forward to more of her in the future. Highly recommended. X

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So Julia

She wasn't kidding, it is a masterpiece. Julia writes with such clarity, flair and raw honesty. I really enjoyed this and I'm so glad I chose to listen to the audiobook because the way Julia reads is so expressive and powerful. Highly recommended!

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Iconic

One of the most vulnerable audiobooks I have ever listened too, Julia is a queen.
I felt so emotional throughout and I’m so sad now that I’ve listened to it all. One word - iconic

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Incredible and Inspiring

Julia’s life story is wild and very sad at times. She has taken so many experiences that would break a person and turned them into something positive. Love her wit and realness, anyone suggesting she is famous for nothing is a boring misogynist. Go Julia

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