NEW RELEASE
The Camera Never Lies - Tess Daly (2011)
British gal Britt Baxter is offered the opportunity of a lifetime, to star as the cover girl of a new label - the only catch is she has to sleep with the label's boss. But the strongly principled Britt, who has a boyfriend Alex, turns it down and soon finds herself in Japan. The one place on earth that models go when they can't get work. But even here things don't work out the way Britt hoped and when tragedy strikes at home, she hops on a plane back to the UK. While waitressing at a PR party, Britt is noticed by a news producer of breakfast TV show Rise and Shine. Has Britt's dreams finally come true or will she discover that being on camera isn't all it is cracked up to be as she lands herself deep in the world of celebrities, divas and nosy paparazzo. Written by the presenter of British TV show Strictly Come Dancing, this is a fun look at the behind-the-scenes life of a TV presenter and what it takes for some stars to make it to the top of their game. (PP)
Tess Daly, presenter of the British TV show Strictly Come Dancing, has written her first novel The Camera Never Lies. The summary says: "Britt Baxter is unaware of the effect she has on people. A big-hearted, no-nonsense northern girl, she naturally looks for the best in everyone she meets, but in her attempts to make it as model she finds she struggles against being pinned down on the casting couch by the most unlikely people... So when a happy accident lands her a career as a presenter on breakfast television, it looks as if she has made it out of the modelling world of close-ups and cattle calls and into the big time - or at least daytime TV. But scarcely has Britt had time to wonder at how far she has come, when backstage machinations propel her with ever increasing speed through a series of trapdoors and she soon realises that the drama backstage far eclipses anything that happens in front of the camera." The Camera Never Lies is out in October. Daly, a former model, has previously published a non-fiction title about motherhood, The Baby Diaries.