You wouldn’t have thought it would be possible to write a dull book about such a rich life as Madonna’s, but Mary Gabriel manages it. She also spends 800 pages managing it, which compounds the achievement.
I haven’t made a career out of reading biographies of pop’s most dogged female performer, but I do remember enjoying her brother Christopher Ciccone’s 2008 book, My Life With My Sister Madonna (one of those It Does What It Says On The Tin tomes).
