The Unforgettable Loretta Darling
A Novel

It’s 1950 and Loretta Reynolds is newly arrived in Hollywood, fresh off a con that brought her from England to the sunny shores of California. She’s running away from a complicated past to fulfill her ambition of becoming a makeup artist to the stars. When her new husband, a would-be actor, takes her......more

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review. I really wanted to love this book, because I’m a sucker for old Hollywood. Unfortunately, it all fell flat for me. The first two parts were painstakingly slow to the point where I felt I had to force myself to pick the book back up, b......more

This was great fun to read! I bought it on the strength of meeting the author whose description of the book resulted in me buying a copy. Loretta (not her real name) talks her way into crossing the Atlantic, leaving behind her old life in Morecambe and reinventing herself in 1950s Hollywood where sh......more

Zeitreise nach Hollywood der 50er-Jahre! Mit Not your Darling gelingt Katherine Blake ein atmosphärischer Roman, der das Hollywood der 1950er-Jahre lebendig und facettenreich zum Leben erweckt. Der Schreibstil ist zugänglich und sorgt dafür, dass man sich mühelos in die Geschichte einfinden kann. Bes......more

3.5 ⭐️......more