Bluette

Catherine Hammond, raised in an English spa-town in the 1930s, is first taken on exotic flights of fancy by her actress mother on the nursery's Turkish carpet. But her life is not to be the fairytale she desires. For during the quest for her long-lost first love, Cahterine assumes myriad guises — Soho hostess, archdeacon's housekeeper, agency model, political wife and Hollywood actress — and unveils gradually and painfully the extraordinary history that has shaped her.