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Joanne B, Educator
The Original
By Priya Parmar
Published by Allison & Busby
Priya Palmer has written a beautiful yet delicate and potent novel about the life and style of Katherine Hepburn. Full of 1930s Hollywood temptations: careers, fashion, movies, and relationships.
Katharine Hepburn was a legend. But do you know how she became one?
After the devastating loss of her beloved brother, young Katharine, full of grit and determination wants to be famous and will not let anyone hurt her along the way.
Arriving in 1930s Hollywood, Hepburn is determined to live on her own terms.
But life is full of rules! Men dominate the world of fame. Yet Kate - beautiful, bisexual and fiercely independent - refuses to follow them.
Via the mixture of a glittering world of power and her steadfast ambition alongside figures like David and Irene Selznick, Cary Grant, John Ford and Howard Hughes, Hepburn forges her own infamous path. She becomes the star Hollywood demands, or she risks everything to be the woman she always was.
Priya Parmar has done herself proud via her meticulous research, her emotionally charged portrait of an icon and her stylishly crafted written word.
Katherine Hepburn still remains one of the most talked about movie legends of the Hollywood era. The woman who refused to be anything but “original”.
Joanne Bardgett - teacher of littlies, lover of Children’s literature.
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By Priya Parmar
Published by Allison & Busby
Priya Palmer has written a beautiful yet delicate and potent novel about the life and style of Katherine Hepburn. Full of 1930s Hollywood temptations: careers, fashion, movies, and relationships.
Katharine Hepburn was a legend. But do you know how she became one?
After the devastating loss of her beloved brother, young Katharine, full of grit and determination wants to be famous and will not let anyone hurt her along the way.
Arriving in 1930s Hollywood, Hepburn is determined to live on her own terms.
But life is full of rules! Men dominate the world of fame. Yet Kate - beautiful, bisexual and fiercely independent - refuses to follow them.
Via the mixture of a glittering world of power and her steadfast ambition alongside figures like David and Irene Selznick, Cary Grant, John Ford and Howard Hughes, Hepburn forges her own infamous path. She becomes the star Hollywood demands, or she risks everything to be the woman she always was.
Priya Parmar has done herself proud via her meticulous research, her emotionally charged portrait of an icon and her stylishly crafted written word.
Katherine Hepburn still remains one of the most talked about movie legends of the Hollywood era. The woman who refused to be anything but “original”.
Joanne Bardgett - teacher of littlies, lover of Children’s literature.
#Netgallery
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