Curtain Call
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
Two desperate journeys. One unscripted finale. A mesmerizing contemporary thriller.
Thirty-nine-year-old Enora Andressen is a successful actress and a woman in her prime. But for how long? Tests have revealed an aggressive brain tumour that could kill her.
Already struggling with the wreckage of her marriage and a strained relationship with her teenage son, Malo, she hasn’t anticipated the appearance of investigative journalist Mitch Culligan on her doorstep. Mitch is writing a book about entrepreneur and one-time drug baron Hayden Prentice – a multi-millionaire who once crossed paths with Enora, and whom Mitch believes has helped fund the push to take the UK out of Europe. Mitch is determined to expose the murky swirl of politics, power and influence around Brexit – but in order to do so, he needs Enora’s help . . .
Enora must confront her past while facing a deeply uncertain future. Can she survive near-impossible odds?
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Actress Enora Andressen, the 39-year-old narrator of this melodramatic series launch from Hurley (the Joe Faraday detective series), is surprised to return to her posh London apartment and find Malo, her "impossibly handsome, impossibly difficult, and impossibly remote" 17-year-old son, with whom she has a strained relationship. Malo has been living in Sweden with his film director father and father's starlet girlfriend. Meanwhile, Enora has recently been diagnosed with brain cancer. Life gets even more complicated when investigative journalist Mitch Culligan asks Enora to approach Hayden Prentice, a shady multimillionaire with whom she had a one-night stand in her youth, in order to find out whether he's donating large sums to a political party. The intrigue is largely subordinate to arguments about such subjects as Brexit, Trump's America, Britain's immigration policy, and political corruption in general. Readers looking for page-turning thrills will be disappointed. Still, Enora is a sufficiently strong character to carry a series.
