Actress

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From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter`s search to understand her mother`s hidden truths.

This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O`Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London`s West End. Katherine`s life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings.

But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine`s past, or the world`s damage. As Norah uncovers her mother`s secrets, she acquires a few of her own. Then, fame turns to infamy when Katherine decides to commit a bizarre crime.

Actress is about a daughter`s search for the truth: the dark secret in the bright star, and what drove Katherine finally mad.

Brilliantly capturing the glamour of post-war America and the shabbiness of 1970s Dublin, Actress is an intensely moving, disturbing novel about mothers and daughters and the men in their lives. A scintillating examination of the corrosive nature of celebrity, it is also a sad and triumphant tale of freedom from bad love, and from the avid gaze of the crowd.