
is the memoir of a fictional young soap star who becomes a national icon.
All Steffi’s dreams come true when she lands a starring part in the country’s biggest soap opera, has a number one Christmas single and wins a Bafta. The whole country falls in love with her, including the pop star she had a crush on all through her teenage years.
But someone out there knows a secret about Steffi’s past and heartless media revelations blow apart everything she ever believed to be true about her family and about herself.
“The Overnight Fame of Steffi McBride” was published on 8th September 2008
by Blake Publishing, www.blake.co.uk

It’s 1970 and fifteen-year-old Maggie Mitchell arrives in London with a head full of dreams and an empty wallet. On the run from her humdrum suburban life, she is determined to find fame and fortune. Intoxicated by the opportunities of big city life she transforms herself into the glamorous Maggie de Beer and sets about making it big.
But there are many predators just waiting to take advantage of a gorgeous young hopeful and the choices Maggie makes lead her into dangerous waters as she strives to become the next Audrey Hepburn. Then a chance encounter one night sets in motion a chain of events that change her fate dramatically and lead to her becoming more famous than she could ever have imagined.
“This, I thought as the chauffeured car slid me back from Park Lane to Earl’s Court behind darkened windows, is what life must have been like for party girls like Christine Keeler in the sixties. I had found my Xanadu, the place where I was meant to be …”“The Fabulous Dreams of Maggie De Beer ” will be published 1st February 2010
by Blake Publishing, www.blake.co.uk
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