TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lester,Natasha
TI  - Her mother's secret
SN  - 9780733634659
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Sydney, NSW
PB  - Hachette Australia Pty Limited
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Families
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Ballerinas
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Cosmetics industry
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Australian
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - AF ON ORDER - 1 copy 01/03/17; Tertiary/Undergraduate; General
N2  - 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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