Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found … by Allegra Huston.
I read the excerpt from this book in the May issue of US Vogue and loved it “When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon afterward, she was introduced to an intimidating man wreathed in cigar smoke — the legendary film director John Huston — with the words, “This is your father.” So began an extraordinary odyssey: from the magical Huston estate in Ireland to the Long Island suburbs to a hidden paradise in Mexico — and, at the side of her older sister, Anjelica, into the hilltop retreats of Jack Nicholson, Ryan O’Neal, and Marlon Brando. Then, at the age of twelve, Allegra’s precarious sense of self was shattered when she was, once more, introduced to her father — her real one this time, the British aristocrat and historian John Julius Norwich.
Love Child is a seductive insight into one of Hollywood’s great dynasties and the story of how, in a family that defied convention, one woman found her balance on the shifting sands of conflicting loyalties.”
$17. Amazon Publisher: Simon & Schuster (April 7, 2009)
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