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Chanel Bonfire
By the time Wendy Lawless turned seventeen shed known for quite some time that she didnt have a normal mother. But that didnt stop her from wanting one...Georgann Rea didnt bake cookies or go to PTA meetings; she wore a mink coat and always had a lit Dunhill plugged into her cigarette holder. She had slept with too many men and some women and she didnt like dogs or children. Georgann had the ice queen beauty of a Hitchcock heroine and the cold heart to match. In this evocative darkly humorous memoir Wendy deftly charts the highs and lows of growing up with her younger sister in the shadow of an unstable fabulously neglectful mother. Georgann a real-life Holly Golightly who constantly reinvents herself as she trades up from trailer-park to penthouse suffers multiple nervous breakdowns and
suicide attempts while Wendy tries to hide the cracks in their fractured family from the rest of the world. Chanel Bonfire depicts a childhood blazed through the refined aeries of The Dakota and the swinging townhouses of London while the girls beautiful but damned mother desperately searches for glamour and fulfilment. Ultimately they must choose between living their own lives and being their mothers warden.
suicide attempts while Wendy tries to hide the cracks in their fractured family from the rest of the world. Chanel Bonfire depicts a childhood blazed through the refined aeries of The Dakota and the swinging townhouses of London while the girls beautiful but damned mother desperately searches for glamour and fulfilment. Ultimately they must choose between living their own lives and being their mothers warden.
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