"Mother was a celluloid baby, or so she liked to say . . . For Mother the movies were the ultimate reality and I spent my childhood trying to work out what film we were living in that week . . ."
But as Anna Faraday grows up, she becomes obsessed with a mystery no movie detective can solve for her: who is her father? With the help of a wild and wonderful cast of characters any Hollywood director would kill for, Anna begins to unravel the past of her beautiful and talented dancer mother, Frances - and the secret of The Man with the Diamond Bracelet.
Rich in insights of the dance world and its larger-than-life people, with a cast of characters to love and love-to-hate, laugh and weep over, it's a book to enjoy more than once.
