Becoming Liz Taylor

Becoming Liz Taylor

By Elizabeth Delo

Genre:-Literary Contemporary Psychological Fiction

Pages:-287

Publisher:-Allen and Unwin

Blurb:-'Val looked around. The baby appeared to be all on its own. There was no sign of a mother. No sign of anyone.

Val didn't think about it. She didn't even break her stride. She kicked the brake off the pram and pushed it as if she did is every day.'

 Val, a widow living in Weston-super-Mare, spends lonely evenings dressing up as the movie star Elizabeth Taylor. It seems to be a way of coping with the loss and sadness she has experienced in her life. One day, when Val sees a pram left unattended on the seafront, on a whim she kicks off the brake and walks away with it...

 Set in the present and the 1970s, Becoming Liz Taylor is a vivid and touching depiction of love, loss and bereavement-thought-provoking, moving fiction for fans of Rachel Joyce, Emma Healey and Ruth Hogan

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My Review:-Val lives in Western-super-Mare, her only escape to being happy is dressing up and 'Becoming Liz Taylor', black hair, make-up and clothes. Val has never be able to get over the death of her baby boy, Duncan and her husband. She never sees her other son Rafe, who's living in Brighton after splitting with his long-ter

m partner Jim. Val goes on the run after taking a baby, that she seen in a pram at the funfair, but it's not going to be that simple, when you're dressed as Liz Taylor. What is she going to do now with the baby?

This is an emotional story, that I could relate to in parts. We have love, loss, grief, loneliness, This will make you both laugh and cry.