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It’s September 1940, and recently widowed Evelyn has been plucked from her humdrum civil service job in Woking and transported to the opulent world of wartime Hollywood. Young, bright and fluent in nine languages, she is to assist the British Colonel Peyton, who has secretly been trying to persuade an Anglo-Hungarian producer to create war propaganda. However, when Evelyn arrives, Peyton has been called to Bermuda and she finds herself isolated and adrift in new world which is dazzling and baffling in equal measure. Evelyn is free to reinvent herself but Hollywood, for all its luxury, is a dangerous place for an outsider…
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"A dazzling novel about a young woman thrust into in the opulent world of 1940s Hollywood. “Levene is a zesty storyteller and a master of the needle-sharp one-liner.” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH “Levene has a pitch-perfect ear for dialogue.” OBSERVER"
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