Miss Aluminium

Miss Aluminium, Susanna Moore, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, £9.99
In this superb Hollywood memoir, novelist Susanna Moore tells the story of her early years. In 1963, a 17-year-old Moore left her childhood home in Hawaii. Four trunks of fabulous clothes and a job at Bergdorf’s sent her off to New York, then LA: soon she was a model (a gig at a boat show in a silver-sequinned dress got her the name ‘Miss Aluminium’), an actress, script reader and finally a writer. There are cameos from Dean Martin, Joan Didion, Audrey Hepburn, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson, though just as memorable is Moore’s unflinching portrayal of the darkness beneath the glamour of Seventies Hollywood.