Bette Davies: More Than A Woman

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From bestselling author James Spada comes a biography of one of the few genuine Hollywood legends - Bette Davis. Revealing a life replete with scandal, sex, violence, courage and sacrifice, BETTE DAVIS: MORE THAN A WOMAN is the fruit of three years of painstaking research, including in-depth interviews with Davis' relatives, colleagues and friends. It is a portrait of one of the most complex and misrepresented women in Hollywood history, and details many of the trials and traumas that were to shape her troubled life: her strangely close relationship with her mother; her ambivalent attitude towards sex; her possible role in the brain damage of her adopted daughter and her stormy, roller- coaster marriages.

PETER LAWFORD: THE MAN WHO KEPT SECRETS and GRACE: THE SECRET LIVES OF A PRINCESS were both international bestsellers. Born and raised in Staten Island, New York, he now lives in Los Angeles

'Absorbing and thoroughly documented' Sunday Telegraph 'Spada's irresistible, revelatory biography... bursts with film lore, gossip, countless affairs and family secrets' Publishers Weekly 'Spada has certainly done his homework, and charts Davis' climb to fame .. Without ever losing sight of the woman who motivated the actress' Time Out