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From London With Love - Jemma Forte (2011)
Jessica Granger is the daughter of James Bond actor Edward Granger, and her mother Angelica Dupree was voted the sexiest Bond girl. Jessica should feel privileged to have them as her parents but all she feels is unfulfilled. She has gotten every job because of her father and has not needed to work for anything. Fed up with having been brought up with a silver spoon in her mouth in LA, she decides to move to London and to change her surname to Bender so no one recognises her connections. Once in London she meets up with her Aunt Pam and lands a job in the TV industry where she works hard to keep her real upbringing a secret. With a possible romance with Peter - a writer for the show she works for - on the cards, Jessica starts to realise that she may lose much more than what she thought she would gain by being independent from her parents. This is a very funny read about one girl's self discovery as she tries to make it on her own and learning to be content with who you are. With lots of great references to the cultural differences between the US and England, I'm going to score it 008. (CG)
British TV presenter Jemma Forte's second novel From London with Love is about a woman who's desperate to outrun James Bond. The summary says: "Everyone wants to be famous, don't they? Not Jessica Granger. Her father was the movie star who played the world's favourite James Bond and, worse, her mother was voted sexiest-ever Bond Girl for her role as Heavenly Melons. Like it or not, fame is in her blood. But Jessica dearly wants to be someone in her own right. So she flees Hollywood for London, seeking independence in a city where nobody knows her name. But when she finds a job as a celebrity booker on a chat show she realises the more friends she makes, the harder it is to keep up the lies about who she is. And when Jessica falls for Paul, a writer on the show, her life as a double agent causes double trouble. With the truth of her past about to explode into her new world, can Jessica convince Paul she's the real deal? Or maybe a sprinkling of the old 007 magic will spice up her love life?" From London with Love is out in July.