Even movie stars aren't always ready for their close up, especially when it may expose the secrets of the past.
Zoe Green manages the careers of Hollywood's biggest stars. She'll do anything to help them - and herself - get ahead.
Actress Maggie Hall has been America's sweetheart for nearly twenty years. And she's about to learn that there are two things in life you just can't fight: growing older and falling in love.
Dylan Mercer - young, beautiful and defiant - has run away from New York to try her luck in Hollywood. She's not after fame and fortune, though. Dylan's on a quest to find her birth mother.
All three women are swept up in the search for the actress who will score the role of a lifetime. But ambition and desire can bring out the worst in people. And in a town built on illusions, believing you can escape your past might just be the biggest illusion of all.
Kate Forster lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband, two children and two dogs, and can be found nursing a laptop, surrounded by magazines and watching trash TV or French films while Facebooking, pinning on Pinterest, tweeting and texting, usually all at once. Kate is an avid follower of fashion, fame and all things pop culture and is an excellent dinner party guest who always brings gentle gossip and champagne.
Close Up
Penguin Australia
Author: Kate Forster
ISBN: 9781921901638
RRP: $29.99
Question: What inspired the story of Close Up?
Kate Forster: The fact that most of the drama in Hollywood, doesn't happen on screen, it happens behind the scenes. The secrets that A list stars try to keep hidden, the backstabbing and the ambition that makes that world go around. Times haven't changed from the 1950's when reputations were so carefully managed. They are still controlled, but it's harder and harder to keep secrets in a digital age. Everyone has a smart phone and this makes the famous more vulnerable than ever.
Question: Was it difficult to write a book that follows the lives of three different women?
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