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More copies of this ISBN:True Hollywood Liesby Josie Brown
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Here are the three most common lies "You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen." If anyone has heard it all, it's Hannah. As the daughter of celebrated actor Leo Fairchild, she can easily recite the bald-faced lies you'll hear out of the mouth of almost any A-list leading man. When Leo has a fatal heart attack while making love to a nineteen-year-old starlet, Hannah's world goes out of orbit. Not only has Leo's conniving fourth wife frozen her trust fund, but the grieving widow has also been having an affair with Hannah's indie producer boyfriend! Faced with a credit card bill that rivals the national debt, Hannah is forced to put her one passion — astronomy — on hold while she takes the job of personal assistant to international hottie Louis Trollope. Louis is just as egotistical — and yes, irresistible — as her father had been. Which is why she's determined to keep him — and his super-model girlfriend, bad boy entourage, and over-sexed agent — at arm's length. Besides, she's falling in love with his best friend, screenwriter Mick Bradshaw. But Louis loves a challenge. And he's decided that convincing Hannah that he loves her is the role of a lifetime. Review:"Despite promises to distinguish between 'the Hollywood you know' and the Hollywood her leading lady knows, Brown's debut novel confirms just what you suspect about celebrity and unfolds with all the inevitability of a romantic comedy. Hannah Fairchild is the levelheaded daughter of Hollywood glitterati, more interested, we're told, in astronomy than any other kind of stargazing. But her hobby mostly serves as an abundant source of puns, as she's reduced to working as a personal assistant to British heartthrob Louis Trollope when her famous father dies and her stepmother freezes her trust fund. The wildly egotistical star keeps Hannah on her toes ordering Zone-kosher foods and arranging his trysts. Brown captures the humor of working for a megalomaniac: an offhand remark from Hannah, 'Don't go believing your own press clippings,' sends her boss into a panic. 'Why? What have you read? What have you heard?' A love triangle between Hannah, her boss and his best friend Mick Bradshaw gives the book the tension that drives this well-paced, entertaining story forward. Unfortunately, Hannah is inconsistent as a character and a narrator, wavering between savvy and navet, between embracing the spotlight and hiding behind the scenes. Agent, Al Zuckerman. (Oct.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) About the AuthorJosie Brown is a feature writer of relationship articles and celebrity interviews. She is also the editor of the internationally syndicated "John Gray's Mars Venus Advice" newspaper column, and the co-editor of the "Relationship NewsWire". She has written two previous books: Last Night I Dreamt of Cosmopolitansa humor dictionary that interprets the fashionista's worst nightmares — specifically those pertaining to designer duds and bad dates. She is also the co-author, along with her husband, Martin, of Marriage Confidential: 102 Honest Answers to the Questions Every Husband Wants to Ask, and Every Wife Needs to Know. Impossibly Tongue Tied,her next novel, will be released by Avon in 2006. Josie lives in Marin County, California with Martin and their two children. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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