Title: Fleur de Leigh's life of crime
First published: 1999
Description: Tucked away in her parent's lavish Beverly Hills mansion, young Fleur de Leigh has all the benefits of a privileged upbringing. Hers is a world marked by glamour and abundance, where the air is thick with showbiz glitz and couches sink under big screen stars.

Fleur's mother, a flamboyant, ambitious B-movie actress and eponymous star of The Charmian Leigh Radio Mystery Half-Hour, and aloof father, currently reduced to producing TV game shows, casually entrust their daughter to a procession of nannies. Among them are Bettina, who accessorizes her uniform with high heels; Clover, an orphan determined on an acting career; and the monstrous Miss Hoate, whose brief tenure ends when she is escorted from the job in a straitjacket.

From the quirky to the certifiably insane, these women all play a role in shaping Fleur, touching her heart, and ours, in unique and unpredictable ways.
Subjects: Mothers and daughters, Nannies, Fiction, Children of celebrities, Girls, California, fiction, Beverly hills (calif.), fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Radio actors and actresses, Rich people, Family relationships, Children and adults, Parent and child, Dysfunctional families, History
LC classification: PS3562.E8173 F58 1999