Description: Diane Leslie transforms the eccentricities of her own childhood as the offspring of a Hollywood screenwriter and an entertainment lawyer into a fast, fresh, and funny excursion through a world built on illusions, counterfeit dreams, and bankrupt values. The peerless "tour guide" is Fleur de Leigh, whose encounters with a parade of nannies, all quirky and some downright psychotic, forms the framework of the novel. In recounting her passage through adolescence with a verve most screenwriters would envy, Fleur captures the lives of the rich and famous and of Hollywood's working class men and women, who, as Fleur discovers, sometimes prove to be the only stars worth following.

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