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    Not Without You

    By Harriet Evans

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    Absorbing storytelling at its very best. An intriguing and compelling read from the Sunday Times bestselling author. ‘An elegant, fun page-turner’ Red ‘You’ll race through the pages to find out what happens’ Heat

    If you don’t learn from history …You’re destined to repeat it.

    Sophie Sykes hasn’t been called by her real name in years. Since she hit the big time, she’s been LA movie star Sophie Leigh, forgetting all about her old life back in England. But in the process of leaving everything behind, she’s lost something of herself, too.

    Eve Noel didn’t choose her own name. Ever since her Hollywood star rose in the 1950s, she was told what to wear, when to smile, who to love. Until one day, she simply vanished: no-one knew where she went, or why…

    As Sophie’s picture-perfect world begins to crumble, it seems her life might be linked to Eve’s. As past and present collide, Sophie must unravel the mystery around Eve’s disappearance to save them both – but is she already too late.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateMar 28, 2013
    ISBN9780007350322
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    Harriet Evans

    Harriet Evans has sold over a million copies of her books. She is the author of twelve bestselling novels, most recently the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller The Garden of Lost and Found, which won Good Housekeeping's Book of the Year. She used to work in publishing and now writes full time, when she is not being distracted by her children, other books, crafting projects, puzzles, gardening, and her much-loved collection of jumpsuits. She lives in Bath, Somerset.

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    • 3/5
      I figured this story out very early. I thought it went a bit longer than it should have, but I still enjoyed it.
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      “….Hollywood is about extremes, as someone once said. You’re either a success or a failure, there’s no in-between”.In the 1950’s twenty year old Eve Noel goes England to California to seek fame and fortune.In the current day, thirty year old Sophie Leigh has gone from England to Hollywood to seek fame and fortune.- both women will find themselves sucked in and chewed up by the vicious film industry.We first meet Eve, when she is 6 years old and playing with her older sister Rose in their English garden but then Rose accidentally drowns and Eve’s life will never be the same again. It is then the 1950’s and Eve is 20 years old when she makes her way to California to find stardom and fame and she really is an innocent abroad. In the days when young starlets were chaperoned to parties to meet the film producers who would decide their fate, the Hollywood machine wastes no time in getting its claws into people like Eve. Lecherous studio bosses and their spies do their very best to make young girls like Eve jump through hoops to keep their career not caring what the consequences may be.Sophie Leigh (actually Sophie Sykes) is nearly 30. She too has gone from England to America to be a film star. We are now in the present day and really things don’t seem to have changed much. The studios don’t seem to have quite so much control over their star’s lives although they can still make and break careers with dirty tricks and the wrong word here and there.Sophie has made her name playing ditzy characters in rom-coms. However, with her career on the downward slide, she now wants to do more than act in the third rate film scripts that come her way. She is also obsessed with the 1950’s actress Eve Noel, and even lives in Eve’s old Hollywood house. Sophie’s dream is to make a film about Eve’s life…and have Eve Noel appear in it. However no-one knows what has happened to Eve. In 1961, she suddenly disappeared and has never been heard of again.This book turned out to be a much deeper and darker read than I was expecting. We see through Sophie’s eyes how fickle fame and fortune is and what happens when your fans…and indeed, people you thought were friends, turn against you. It seemed to me that a lot of research had gone into the book, especially in the lifestyle and practices of the moviemakers and the film studios of decades ago and this gave an extra element to the story.The story travels back and forth from the US to the English countryside, and you get a real feeling for location. The characters are well written, some are likeable and others definitely not, however they each pull you in to the story. Sophie as the main character, was interesting enough to carry the story, however I found myself drawn to Eve and her life and for me she was the real star of the book.There is a sub plot involving Sophie which led to a dramatic scene which I really was not expecting, and this change of tone makes the book different from previous books that I’ve read by Harriet Evans.It’s difficult to say any more without giving the plot away but I really enjoyed this story and would recommend it if you’re looking for a read with a little more substance.My thanks to the publisher Harper Collins for the copy to review.