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Imagine being born the daughter of a mega-star. Inexhaustibly rich, unbelievably famous, and by a chance of fate trapped in an ultra-luxurious prison - the Royal Trocadero Hotel. Holly Bliss Winterman's mother is a mega-star. Literally. She has trouble finding time to squeeze Holly in between facials and press interviews - without the help of her trusty PA. But when someone threatens to kidnap Holly, her mother decides the safest place for Holly is by her side - then they can also spend more 'quality time' together. Oh no. What does a girl do when there's a kidnap threat hanging over you and you're not allowed to venture outside? When your Mum wants to turn you into a mini-version of herself, but you'd rather be a vet? Holly must struggle to assert her personality against all the odds.
When Jessica's parents split up she is confused. Jessica can't understand how people can fall out of love any more than she can understand how her best friend can fall in love with a boy called Cedric who wears a luminous anorak, when Jessica herself will settle for nothing less than complete perfection. And what about her art teacher, Mrs Mills? How can she be single when she's so pretty without her glasses? Jessica can see that her help is needed and just like a modern day Emma, sets about interfering with the love lives of those closest to her (when she really should have known better). This is a very funny, very touching exploration of a teenager getting to grips with the complicated rules of attraction, and quietly deals with much bigger themes of family, friendship and responsibility.
Having fought attempts to turn her into a mini-me pop starlett in book one, Holly finds herself subjected to her mother's egomaniac schemes once again. Plucked from life and friends in London, Holly is transplanted to a 'designer' but far-from-homely penthouse in New York (the convenient epicentre for her mother's music tour). Holly is not impressed. But then when she starts to take stock of her situation, Holly realises it may not be as entirely awful as she first thought: she'll be able to see more of her dad who also lives in Manhattan, it should (officially) be the start of the summer holidays, and there's always a chance that teenage boys in New York will be more enlightened to her charms than boys in England . . . If she can find a way to get rid of her personal tutor, give her bodyguard the slip, and keep her mother from coming up with any new crazy schemes in the immediate future (no easy job), then maybe things could even start to be fun . . .
'My Life Starring Mum' tells the story of Holly Bliss Winterman attempting to assert her personality when she is forced to stay with her mega-star famous (and slightly imbalanced) mother.
There's only one thing that could induce techno-phobe Justine to dabble on the Information Super-Highway - and it's male. Yes the chance to share love-bytes with a cool boy-babe is all it takes to get Justine surfing in Cyberspace. But when the black-clad lad, Los reveals his website wanderlust for time-travel, Justine finds herself in a datspace dilemma... Just how far should she go?
To hold something and turn it round in your hand, knowing that someone else, long ago, has run their fingers along these same curves and edges. It makes you wonder who they were, what their lives were like and what became of them. When Julia found objects lost or hidden or buried in her French manoir, they set her on a quest to learn their stories. The facts she uncovered changed her own life in a way she could hardly have envisaged.
A scandal-filled, very funny teen-girl-in-a-crisis story, with a continental twist.
For anyone insane enough to want to embark on forming an opera company, or anyone who is fanatic about opera, 'How to Knit an Opera' is a compelling and enormously funny read.
Hollywood Bliss Winterman is the daughter of an enormously rich, hugely famous and impressively high-maintenance pop star. But Holly only wants the average things in life . . .