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Barbara Ewing The Actresses
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A class reunion at a London drama school in the 1990s triggers a series of dramatic events that leads to a celebrity court case in the Old Bailey, and shows the successes and the failures - and the past and the memories - of a group of famous (and not-so-famous) actors and actresses. Click here to buy The Actresses at Amazon REVIEWS “This is an excellent account of the late middle-aged antics of the class of
’59...a terrific insight into actors’ childish psyches. Ewing understands
the different kinds of love and friendship, and the denouement on a Hawaiian
island is pure Jilly Cooper.” SUNDAY TIMES
The odd thing
about "The Actresses" - reprinted in 2015 after twenty-one
years - is that it seems so relevant to today and to all the various
stories and revelations about Hollywood and Show Business that have now
spread out into many other countries and professions.
But when I
wrote that novel I was trying to write about how actresses became
irrelevant when they were no longer young: to write a true story
about actresses lives, to tell it like it really was. And so of course all
the accounts of powerful, unscrupulous producers and directors, and
desperate, ambitious performers, are all there anyway. But: Note the covers:
Why are middle-aged women invisible on book covers?
- The Guardian
Actresses
are, after all, simply a metaphor for women in general. And I think we are
in the middle of a new revolution. And if all that sounds too heavy and
serious this is just to say: "The Actresses" is also a thriller!
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