Sisters, Fin and George, navigate a love/hate relationship growing up in a highly dysfunctional family. Their father, Victor Steinbauer, moves them to an isolated property where his dreams to create an idyllic retreat crumble while his family tiptoe around his unpredictable moods. Fin leaves the
The Truth about My Success
β Scribed by Sheldon, Dyan
- Book ID
- 107777809
- Publisher
- Walker Books
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-UK
- Weight
- 273 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781406348552
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Paloma Rose is 16 years old and the star of one of the most popular TV shows ever. She has millions of fans and is the face of a hugely successful merchandising empire. But having had too much too young, Paloma is growing into a notorious brat and beginning to behave really badly: inappropriate boyfriends, drunken incidents, suggestive photos on the internet. The resulting bad publicity could mean the end of the show and with that the end of the lavish lifestyles her family β and her agent β have grown accustomed to. Then her agent bumps into 16 year old Oona Giness in a coffee shop and, struck by the resemblance, decides to switch Oona for Paloma and trick the wayward brat into going off to a boot camp in the desert which he hopes will sort her out. Oona, who lives with her depressed dad in a run-down apartment block, agrees to the deal in the hope that it'll turn her life around. She quickly discovers that Hollywood is not for her, though Hollywood much prefers...
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