Her mother's secret
Lester, Natasha, 1973-2020
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1918, England. Armistice Day should bring peace into Leonora East's life. Rather than secretly making cosmetics in her father's chemist shop, Leo hopes to now display her wares openly. Instead, Spanish flu arrives in the village, claiming her father's life. Determined to start over, she boards a ship to New York City. On the way she meets debonair department store heir Everett Forsyth. In Manhattan, Leo works hard to make her cosmetics dream come true, but she's a woman alone with a small salary and a society that deems make-up scandalous. 1939, New York City. Everett's daughter, Alice, a promising ballerina, receives a mysterious letter inviting her to star in a series of advertisements for a cosmetics line. If she accepts she will be immortalized like dancers such as Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Ginger Rogers. Why, then, are her parents so quick to forbid it?
Main title:
Her mother's secret / Natasha Lester.
Author:
Lester, Natasha, 1973-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Sphere, 2020.
Collation:
390 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2017.
ISBN:
9780751573107 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
586431