num_pages: 368
description: 1918 England. Armistice Day should bring peace into Leonora's life. Rather than secretly making cosmetics in her father's chemist shop to sell to army nurses such as Joan her adventurous Australian friend Leo hopes to now display her wares openly. Instead Spanish flu arrives in the village claiming her father's life. Determined to start over she boards a ship to New York City. On the way she meets debonair department store heir Everett Forsyth . . . In Manhattan Leo works hard to make her cosmetics dream come true but she's a woman alone with a small salary and a society that deems make-up scandalous.1939 New York City. Everett's daughter Alice a promising ballerina receives a mysterious letter inviting her to star in a series of advertisements for a cosmetics line. If she accepts she will be immortalized like dancers such as Zelda Fitzgerald Josephine Baker and Ginger Rogers. Why then are her parents so quick to forbid it?Her Mother's Secret is the story of a brave young woman chasing a dream in the face of society's disapproval.
language: English
title: Her Mother's Secret
publisher: Hachette Australia