Last Dance with Valentino

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If you like The Artist youll love Daisy Waughs Last Dance with Valentino.

One night. One dance. One love to last a lifetime.
1916. Leaving war-ravaged London, Jenny Doyle sets sail for New York where she is to work for the de Saulles family. Their home, Gatsby-like in elegance, is rife with intrigue and madness. Only Jennys friendship with dancer Rodolfo offers escape until, one tragic day, the household is changed forever.

1926. America booms, prohibition rules and Rodolfo has taken his place on the silver screen as Rudolph Valentino. Will the worlds most desired film star and his lost love have their Hollywood happy ending, or will the tragic echoes from their time with the de Saulles thwart them one last time

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Praise for Last Dance with Valentino

a gripping, bittersweet love story SUNDAY TIMES

impeccably researched and beautifully-written DAILY MAIL

Daisy Waugh delivers her engaging tale with wit and a real lightness of touch LITERARY REVIEW

written in deft, engrossing prose, this story is dizzy with glamour and heartbreak. EASY LIVING

Waugh weaves fact with fiction into a novel with glamour, tragedy and romance CHOICE

Its intelligent, inventive and deliciously entertaining SAGA

Author Bio

Daisy Waugh was born in 1967. A journalist and travel writer for many publications, Daisy has worked as an Agony Aunt for The Independent and as a restaurant critic. She also wrote a weekly column from Los Angeles about her attempts to become a Hollywood screenwriter. She has presented for Channel Four's Travelogue show and also contributed to Radio Four's You and Yours. Daisy has had two previous novels published to great critical acclaim, What is the matter with Mary Jane and in January 2002, The New You Survival Kit. Her travel book about living in Northern Kenya, A Small Town in Africa, was also very well received. She now lives in West London with her husband and two children.