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The Perfect Location - Kate Forster (2012)
Three actresses meet on the set of a movie, The Italian Dream. Former child actress Calypso, who has escaped the clutches of her over-controlling manager mother, immediately catches the eye of director T.G. American movie star Sapphira is hiding her drug addiction and an unsettling secret from the past. She bonds immediately with co-star Jack, who is more than happy to have the world think they are a couple. Meanwhile Australian actress Rose bumps into another actor from home, Max, who isn't sure he's ready to move on from the death of his wife. Despite the story being centred around a movie, don't expect much on-set action. Instead the story focuses more on the individual women, their problems and their relationships. The story, which moves between the three characters, isn't particularly helpful in anchoring you to a time frame and I got lost working out whether the stories were happening simultaneously. For example, one of the minor characters, make-up artist Kelly, is on a New York set with one character, then back in Italy with another, then at home in LA, all within a few chapters.
The Perfect Audition is a short story e-book by Kate Forster that leads into her debut novel The Perfect Location. The summary says: "Three women play their part in the glitter-soaked circus that is Hollywood: Calypso, the naive innocent; Sapphira, the ambitious action-star, and Rose, an older icon, recovering from a divorce with a celebrity Playboy. Follow these women as they audition for a Hollywood epic that will lead them to discover the bewitching world of love, fame and scandal and just what it takes to live happily ever after when you are a star."
The Perfect Location is the debut novel by Melbourne-based Kate Forster and dares readers to guess which real life star each of these characters is based upon. The summary says: "Rose Nightingale is an Australian actress, escaping a bad marriage. Sapphira is the world's most beautiful actress, hiding her heroin addiction and broken heart. Calypso is a young new star, trying to escape her mum-manager's clutches. The three women meet on the film set of The Italian Dream, a romantic tear-jerker set in Tuscany. Each of them will find out more about each other and about themselves than they would ever have thought possible. " The Perfect Location is out in January (In May for the UK). Forster, an actress/jazz singer, trained at the prestigious West Australian Academy of Performing Arts.