Biting the Big Apple
"A Memoir of Life, Love (Okay and Sex) in New York City"

Bella Vendramini has a lust for life, so much so that she was asked to chronicle her adventures on and off stage in a book, her memoir of a three-year stint in New York City.

This is the story of how Bella took on New York - falling in love with her very own "Mr Big"- her brilliant love affair that turned sour - making friends (and Martinis), being accepted into the prestigious Lee Strasberg Institute and coming to grips with the vagaries of life in that glittering town.

What life in New York City would offer her she could never have predicted. But she proves that with a little determination and a lot of Down Under pizzazz even the toughest dreams can blossom. Bella truly shows us how to embrace the rollercoaster of life.

Funny, deeply moving and astoundingly honest, Biting the Big Apple is for anyone who ever took a risk - or wishes they had.

Reviews

There are memoirs that are just quirky, funny, enlightening and make you want to grab the world by the collar and shake it! The latter is how I felt when reading Biting the Big Apple by Bella Vendramini.
There are stories that'll make you laugh so hard, and stories that will make you cry, but each and every adventure is Bella's own, and it's so easy to fall in love with her.
 -COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE

Bella Vendramini (an Aussie version of Carrie Bradshaw) will crack you up with quirky quips on life, love and breaking into the biz, in all her beer, fag and larrikin-like glory! Someone tell this girl her calling isn't on stage, but on the page!

We give it four stars
-OK MAGAZINE.

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You won’t be able to put this intriguing tale down of an Aussie girl in NYC- she’s the down-under Candace Bushnell.
-FAMOUS MAGAZINE

Also set in New York but a much warmer book than Candace (Bushnell’s) thanks to its wide-eyed Aussie innocence. You can’t help but love Bella for this starry-eyed tale about moving to New York and living your dreams.
TOP TWO PICKS
-NW Magazine

Part travel memoir, part confessional, this is the laugh-out loud story of Bella Vendramini who dared to chase her acting dreams in New York, throw away the map along the way and embrace the unknown. Written with charming irreverence and laugh-out-loud humour, Biting The Big Apple tells how Bella took on New York and embraced it with gusto. You’ll feel as though you’re right there alongside Bella as she candidly recalls the good, bad, sex, love and life in New York City. If you like Sex And The City, you'll love this
-DOUBLEDAY ENTERTAINMENT

"A fascinating memoir."
- THE AGE

An edgy, witty true story of a young Australian girl trying to make it as an actress in New York
-FROM THE 20 BEST CHRISTMAS READS - AUSTRALIAN WOMENS WEEKLY

Bella Vendramini effortlessly brings NY to life. Her love and passion for the city is evident as she takes the reader on a carnival ride of experience. An acting career may have been the destination but it is the path taken that is Vendramini’s starring role.
-CANBERRA TIMES WEEKEND MAGAZINE ‘RELAX’, COVER STORY (BELLA WAS ON THE COVER).

With passion, humour and just a dash of despair Aussie girl Bella escapes to NY to fulfill her desires. Her loves, her friends, her acting career and learning to live in the Big Apple are all vividly explored.
TOP TWELVE RECOMMENDED BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS
-The Independent Book Guide Independent Booksellers’ Group

This is a great read about taking chances and being able to laugh at yourself.
From one of two Must-Reads,
 -NEW IDEA MAGAZINE

Frank and uncluttered….and full of endearing down-under brassy-brash swearing, Bella transitions from LA to the Big Apple, and starts classes at the renowned Method-acting school, the Lee Strasberg Institute…. The gamut of what you might hope to eavesdrop in or perve on can be found within the book’s pages. Vicarious pleasure is to be had, so go on, be tempted to take a bite.
- INDEPENDENT WEEKLY

In Biting the Big Apple, Vendramini springs on the world fully formed, like Venus,
-THE FACE. THE AUSTRALIAN

Vendramini's book finds its dramatic weight and, ultimately, becomes something much more interesting than high-end chick-lit. It's a literary cliche, but in this case it's also true: the best of Vendramini's writing comes from suffering. Although the basis of the tale is her developing acting career, fuelled by study at the renowned Strasberg Institute, alma mater of everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Dennis Hopper, the book is most interesting for its examination of Vendramini's personal life - and she is relentlessly honest..
-COVER STORY FOR ‘CANVAS’  MAGAZINE, NEW ZEALAND HERALD (BELLA WAS ON THE COVER)

Bella is fantastic!
- FOX ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

The Team at Gloss Magazine fell in love with Kiwi author’s  Bella Vendramini’s Biting the Big Apple
-GLOSS MAGAZINE                     

Bella Vendramini is being described as the Australian Carrie Bradshaw and it’s not difficult to see why. Bella is savvy, funny and has amazing adventures in New York.
What makes the read all the more amazing, however is it is a memoir not a fictional flick-
- VIVA MAGAZINE

Fun and uplifting
- GIRLWITHSATCHEL

A touching, entertaining and often hilarious account of Bella's loves and losses, successes and adventures in New York
-PERTH VITA

Bella Vendramini is a larger-than-life personality who falls so in love with the possibilities of moving to New York to be an actress you can't help but be swept along with her. It's a classic gutter-to-the-stars princess adventure
-SUN HERALD

You feel every inch of emotion that Bella goes through. You laugh out loud, you chuckle to yourself, you grow so inspired you feel you could conquer the world and you, too, get scared. I guess it's because you connect.