Adored (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780446576888)

To the outside world, Siena McMahon has a fairy-tale life. Born into a great Hollywood dynasty-granddaughter of movie legend Duke McMahon, daughter of billionaire producer Pete McMahon-she is blessed with beauty, brains, and wealth...a proverbial princess. Yet behind the wrought-iron gates of the sprawling McMahon mansion in Hancock Park, her life is far from idyllic. The McMahons are bound together not by love but by infighting and ambition. When a gold-digging English aristocrat, Caroline Berkeley, worms her way into their lives and their home, the family's potent mix of jealousy and wealth explodes.

Packed off to school in England, Siena starts making plans to leave the moment she arrives. She is determined to become a Hollywood star in her own right-just as her grandfather had said she would be. And once back in L.A., the rejections, betrayals, and failures she'll face will only make her stronger and tougher than ever before. But at what price? In the utterly dysfunctional landscape of her life-among friends, lovers, and family-she must find the people who will help her survive, help her become the person she was meant to be, help her be truly Adored. Set in the most glamorous cities of the world-L.A., London, Paris, and New York-Tilly Bagshawe's debut novel is like the real-world Hollywood it mirrors: deliciously escapist, wickedly sexy, and always irresistibly compelling.

Author: Tilly Bagshawe
ISBN-10: 0446576883
ISBN-13: 9780446576888
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2005
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.16lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.41w x 1.60d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2005 pg. 433
Publishers Weekly 05/02/2005 pg. 173
Booklist 05/01/2005 pg. 1568
Library Journal 05/15/2005 pg. 104
Entertainment Weekly 06/24/2005 pg. 169
Ingram Advance 07/01/2005 pg. 27
New York Times 07/31/2005 pg. 22
USA Today 07/06/2005 pg. 1
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/15/2005 pg. 60