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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker and A Touch of Stardust comes a Hollywood comingofage novel in which Ingrid Bergmans affair with Roberto Rossellini forces her biggest fan to reconsider everything she was raised to believe

In 1950 Ingrid Bergmanalready a major star after movies like Casablanca and Joan of Archas a baby out of wedlock with her Italian lover film director Roberto Rossellini Previously held up as an icon of purity Bergmans fall shocked her legions of American fans
Growing up in Hollywood Jessica Malloy watches as her PR executive father helps make Ingrid a star at Selznick Studio Over years of fleeting interactions with the actress Jesse comes to idolize Ingrid who she considered not only the epitome of elegance and integrity but also the pictureperfect mother an area where her own difficult mom falls short
In a heated era of McCarthyism and extreme censorship Ingrids affair sets off an international scandal that robs seventeenyearold Jesse of her childhood hero When the stress placed on Jesses father begins to reveal hidden truths about the Malloy family Jesses eyes are opened to the complex realities of lifeand love
Beautifully written and deeply moving The Hollywood Daughter is an intimate novel of selfdiscovery that evokes a Hollywood sparkling with glamour and vivid drama