Her mother's secret / Natasha Lester.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia Pty Limited, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 390 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780733634659Subject(s): Mothers and daughters -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Historical fiction | Australian fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Ballerinas -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Cosmetics industry -- Fiction | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction | AustralianGenre/Form: Historical fiction | Historical fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Australian fiction | Historical fiction | Australian fiction | Historical fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: 1918, England. Armistice Day should bring peace into Leonora's life. Rather than secretly making cosmetics in her father's chemist shop to sell to army nurses such as Joan, her adventurous Australian friend, Leo hopes to now display her wares openly. Instead, Spanish flu arrives in the village, claiming her father's life. Determined to start over, she boards a ship to New York City. On the way she meets debonair department store heir Everett Forsyth ...In Manhattan, Leo works hard to make her cosmetics dream come true, but she's a woman alone with a small salary and a society that deems make-up scandalous. 1939, New York City. Everett's daughter, Alice, a promising ballerina, receives a mysterious letter inviting her to star in a series of advertisements for a cosmetics line. If she accepts she will be immortalized like dancers such as Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Ginger Rogers. Why, then, are her parents so quick to forbid it? Her mother's secret is the story of a brave young woman chasing a dream in the face of society's disapproval.
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1918, England. Armistice Day should bring peace into Leonora's life. Rather than secretly making cosmetics in her father's chemist shop to sell to army nurses such as Joan, her adventurous Australian friend, Leo hopes to now display her wares openly. Instead, Spanish flu arrives in the village, claiming her father's life. Determined to start over, she boards a ship to New York City. On the way she meets debonair department store heir Everett Forsyth ...In Manhattan, Leo works hard to make her cosmetics dream come true, but she's a woman alone with a small salary and a society that deems make-up scandalous. 1939, New York City. Everett's daughter, Alice, a promising ballerina, receives a mysterious letter inviting her to star in a series of advertisements for a cosmetics line. If she accepts she will be immortalized like dancers such as Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Ginger Rogers. Why, then, are her parents so quick to forbid it? Her mother's secret is the story of a brave young woman chasing a dream in the face of society's disapproval.
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