Not Without You by Harriet Evans

Sophie knows she should count herself lucky. She grew up in modest surroundings but suddenly finds herself catapulted into the A-list after the surprise hit of a budget movie. But surrounded by botoxed assistants lecherous old directors and a star-struck mother Sophie just wishes she could be a proper actress in proper serious films. And at the tender age of thirty she already worries she’s past her ‘prime’. As Sophie’s career begins to decline - slowly and painfully at first and then all at once - her fate seems to be entwined with that of her favourite actress Eve Noel. The epitome of 50s Hollywood glamour Eve suddenly disappeared from the spotlight. No-one knows why. As Sophie receives threatening letters it seems that the dark secrets in Eve’s past are beginning to haunt Sophie too . . . With a new film about Shakespeare burying Sophie deep in the English countryside suddenly Eve herself is close at hand.