$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing / ISBN:9781921520679
Hollywood Ending
Set in a glamorous and seedy Los Angeles, Hollywood Ending is a story that will make your heart skip a beat.
Pink-haired Hilda and endearing punk Benji are two seventeen year olds with an obsessive hobby — they haunt the places where Hollywood celebrities have died.
In rundown Echo Park they find the squalid apartment where a second-rate silent movie star stabbed himself to death. Its current tenant is Hank, an old man with a mysterious past.
While Benji dives deeper into the cult of celebrity death, Hank and Hilda make an unlikely pair. Then Jake the screenwriter turns up. What's his story?
Hollywood Ending is a thriller, a comedy about the weirdness of growing up, and a wry love-letter to Los Angeles.
Kathy Charles has written a debut novel to die for.
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$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Set in a glamorous and seedy Los Angeles, Hollywood Ending is a story that will make your heart skip a beat.
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$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Set in a glamorous and seedy Los Angeles, Hollywood Ending is a story that will make your heart skip a beat.
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