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In her stunning memoir, Wendy Lawless tells the often heartbreaking tale of her unconventional upbringing with an unstable alcoholic and suicidal mother—a real-life Holly Golightly turned Mommie Dearest—and the uncommon sense of resilience that allowed her to rise above it all.Georgann Rea didn’t bake cookies or go to PTA meetings; she wore a mink coat and always had a lit Dunhill plugged into her cigarette holder. She’d slept with too many men and a few women, and she didn’t like dogs or chil­dren. Georgann possessed the icy beauty of a Hitchcock heroine with the cold heart to match.From living at the Dakota in 1960s Manhattan to London’s swinging town houses and beyond, Wendy Lawless and her younger sister navigated day-to-day life as their unstable and fabulously neglectful mother, Georgann, chased her delusions, suffered dramatic breakdowns, and survived suicide attempts.



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Wendy Lawless

In addition to her New York Times Bestselling memoir CHANEL BONFIRE and its sequel HEART OF GLASS, Wendy Lawless has published essays on motherhood, family and Hollywood in Redbook, Powells.com and the Los Angeles press. A stage and television actress, she appeared on Broadway in The Heidi Chronicles and off-Broadway in the Obie Award-winning play All in the Timing. She lives in California with her screenwriter husband and their two children. Follow her on Twitter.com/wendylawless2 and see pictures, video and links for Chanel Bonfire and Heart of Glass at www.wendylawless.com. You may also follow her at ChanelBonfire on Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest.

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If your book group plans to read Heart of Glass or Chanel Bonfire I would be happy to do a Skype Q & A with you. If you're having coffee or tea on your end, I'll have coffee or tea on mine. Cocktails? Cocktails! Contact me at chanelbonfire@gmail.com.



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