Hollywood To Kentish Town by Patrice Chaplin: 

To answer your first question, she is related to him.  But let’s talk about the book, shall we?  In the 1980’s, she’s in and out of the Hollywood set, desperately trying to get her novel Siesta made as a film.  In between that, she is coping with the Hollywood system.  The pitfalls of that are lying someone $100k to read your screenplay, Brando’s appetite for food and an extremely flirtatious (as you’d expect) Nicholson.  

It’s not the kiss and tell that has been done before.  Admittedly, it is a slight read (under 150 pages), but it’s an elegant, sophisticated, non-linear one. It’s also a very skilful, contrasting the bleak uncertainties of 1970’s London, with the brash, sunlit gaze of Hollywood.  

It’s published by Quadrant Books on 20th June and I thank Grace Pilkington for a preview copy.