When her godfather who is backing a West End show, presses for Lily to get an audition, she has her chance at serious theatre. Lily has been playing Gloria for four long years and it has not done her dreams for a stage career any favours. Perhaps The Bold and the Beautiful set in the 1920s may be a better comparison though. I imagined it, at least from a looks/costuming perspective, as a kind of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (but without the murder-solving). She plays Gloria, a flapper girl who jumps from bed to bed (and baptismal font as it happens) and doesn’t worry too much about pesky things like wedding rings or clerical collars. Lily Lamprey is an an actress on a soap opera-esque show called Knightsbridge. It was the last straw when she seduced the vicar. I mean, it is one of the most awesome first lines I’ve read in ages. You hooked me from the first line (I don’t count the excerpt from the “article” from fictional gossip rag London Celebrity which precedes it). Now I am, of course, kicking myself about those two unread books because oh lordy, I loved Pretty Face hard.

But trusted friends have told me I need to read both books like, yesterday so when I saw Pretty Face was available for review I snapped it up.

I have your other book too – Artistic License written under the name Elle Pierson (I haven’t read that either – this is basically the story of my giant TBR of Doom). Although I own Act Like It in both ebook and audiobook formats, I haven’t yet read/listened to it.

Pretty face by lucy parker