The Affair: An enthralling story of love and passion and Hollywood glamour

The Affair: An enthralling story of love and passion and Hollywood glamour
Gill Paul

Rome, 1961. As the cameras roll on Cleopatra, the world is transfixed by the love affair emerging between Hollywood’s biggest stars: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.But on the film set, tensions are running high. The money is running out, and a media storm is brewing over the Taylor-Burton relationship. When historical advisor Diana Bailey starts work on the film, she wants nothing more than to escape from her own troubled marriage and start anew. But as the heady world of Hollywood envelops her, secrets begin to emerge in the cast and crew. Is everything as it seems? And what really hides beneath the glamour of the famous film?An enthralling story of love and passion from the bestselling author of The Secret Wife, set against the stunning backdrop of one of the most iconic Hollywood movies ever made.

THE AFFAIR

GILL PAUL

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Source ISBN: 9781847563262

Ebook Edition © May 2013 ISBN: 9780007494118

Version: 2018-06-05

To Anne Nicholson, my lovely aunt,

who always encouraged me to write

Contents

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Title Page (#ue5456e41-ffe1-54ea-babb-245f6cca7d6c)

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Dedication (#ucccd560e-3aea-5663-8f52-ac3e48a487a8)

Foreword (#u6eab40c2-353f-5873-b176-428cc7842a9c)

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Chapter Two (#u81a836b2-0950-50cb-8691-a140b117e162)

Chapter Three (#ub8792cc5-8477-5278-8880-7a5ff3d3342e)

Chapter Four (#ub26bd91a-733a-5dfb-bca2-e31fa77f1a76)

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Chapter Eight (#u0d92473f-21d2-573e-b4dd-0137355d2568)

Chapter Nine (#uc0ad514f-1766-5f77-818e-8c4fff159e5e)

Chapter Ten (#u6921ffde-8d1f-51b7-982e-e6ec2cc22292)

Chapter Eleven (#u207b292e-7a46-5cb9-bd7b-b83732043a50)

Chapter Twelve (#u777269ee-36f5-5709-a58e-e1bc49b1578e)

Chapter Thirteen (#uec90a46c-3370-5a6c-9f32-fc828b5f089a)

Chapter Fourteen (#ub5e9e504-418c-51b5-a96e-5972df29566c)

Chapter Fifteen (#u9da58d35-74b9-526f-91dc-723e7768340d)

Chapter Sixteen (#u8d400f82-eb73-53b6-b502-c4a0e9d073f4)

Chapter Seventeen (#uae0b5f60-df6d-58a9-a608-2ee65efa065e)

Chapter Eighteen (#u055a6871-8b10-59d9-9f62-82ddc80c38f8)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)