Having been abandoned as a newborn and found and raised by Pastor Ezekiel Freeman in the small California town of Haven, Abra Matthews feels like she doesn't belong and at the age of seventeen runs off to Hollywood, becoming starlet Lena Scott.
In this sequel to Farthing, Inspector Carmichael has just come off the Farthing case and has been assigned to a bombing which killed leading actress Lauria Gilmore. Meanwhile Viola Lark has been chosen to act Hamlet in a gender-switching production of the play following Gilmore's untimely death and is drawn into a plot to kill Hitler at the opening night of the play, along with Prime Minister Mark Normanby, the lead figure in the increasingly fascistic government.
"Iris is sorry. Sorry that she no longer hangs out with her BFF. Sorry that she's not closer to her mother. But most of all, she's sorry she makes Mick angry. If all the world's a stage, then Iris's life has become a violent drama, starring a man whose fists are at odds with the eloquence of his words"--Back cover.
the shocking, often disgraceful deeds and affairs of more than 100 American movie and TV idols
Parish, James Robert
2004
Examines one hundred years of Hollywood scandals involving popular stars of film and television including Errol Flynn, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Bob Crane, and Robert Blake.
Biography of Swedish film star Ingrid Bergman, discusses her childhood in Sweden, career in Hollywood, numerous awards, scandalous love affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini, and her eight-year battle with cancer.