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For fans of Muriel Spark, a dazzling novel about a young woman thrust into in the opulent world of 1940s Hollywood, where dirty dealings, undercover agents and off-camera romances aboundIt is September 1940 and Evelyn Murdoch, a translator from the Postal Censorship department, is uprooted from her home in wartime Woking and transferred to Hollywood. She is to assist a mysterious British agent in his attempts to outwit the Los Angeles German delegation and boost the British propaganda war effort.The unhappy young widow is supplied with a new Californian wardrobe, a Bel Air bungalow and her own desk in the writers' block of Miracle Studios.At first bewildered by the glamorous excesses of this strange new world, she is gradually seduced by the sunlight, orange groves and clever, fast-talking men. But, just as she begins to blossom, her new technicolor ending threatens to slip from her grasp.… (altro)
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Brought up in a staunchly Methodist household, Evelyn has never been glamorous. Luckily whilst her mother was alive Evelyn was able to use her ear for languages and has become fluent in nine of them, including esperanto. However she was trapped with her austere widowed father and then in a stultifying marriage to dentist Silas. When Silas is killed in action Evelyn gets a job working for the postal censor but her ear for languages sees her plucked from obscurity to head to Hollywood to assist maverick director Zandor Kiss. Here Evelyn is a fish out of water in a technicolour dreamworld.
The premise of this book is great, the idea of the contrast between dreary wartime Britain and sunny California is the extended metaphor hinted at in the title. Austere Britain is in monochrome, Hollywood in glorious technicolour and Evelyn is not in 'Kansas' anymore. Indeed the first part of the book is terrific, cliched maybe but Evelyn's culture shock and make-over are handled with a lightness of touch and a sly sense of humour. My issue is that the last half of the book seemed somewhat ponderous in comparison. The recurring motif of Japanese gardeners was never explored and, a bit like Evelyn's role, the story never seemed to have a real purpose to it. ( )
For fans of Muriel Spark, a dazzling novel about a young woman thrust into in the opulent world of 1940s Hollywood, where dirty dealings, undercover agents and off-camera romances aboundIt is September 1940 and Evelyn Murdoch, a translator from the Postal Censorship department, is uprooted from her home in wartime Woking and transferred to Hollywood. She is to assist a mysterious British agent in his attempts to outwit the Los Angeles German delegation and boost the British propaganda war effort.The unhappy young widow is supplied with a new Californian wardrobe, a Bel Air bungalow and her own desk in the writers' block of Miracle Studios.At first bewildered by the glamorous excesses of this strange new world, she is gradually seduced by the sunlight, orange groves and clever, fast-talking men. But, just as she begins to blossom, her new technicolor ending threatens to slip from her grasp.
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The premise of this book is great, the idea of the contrast between dreary wartime Britain and sunny California is the extended metaphor hinted at in the title. Austere Britain is in monochrome, Hollywood in glorious technicolour and Evelyn is not in 'Kansas' anymore. Indeed the first part of the book is terrific, cliched maybe but Evelyn's culture shock and make-over are handled with a lightness of touch and a sly sense of humour. My issue is that the last half of the book seemed somewhat ponderous in comparison. The recurring motif of Japanese gardeners was never explored and, a bit like Evelyn's role, the story never seemed to have a real purpose to it. (