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Also by Kathleen Rooney:

From Dust to Stardust, September 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, August 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, January 2017
Hardcover
Live Nude Girl, February 2009
Hardcover

From Dust to Stardust
Kathleen Rooney

Lake Union Publishing
September 2023
On Sale: September 5, 2023
Featuring: Doreen O’Dare
285 pages
ISBN: 1662510586
EAN: 9781662510588
Kindle: B0BL416RVR
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Historical

From the bestselling author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk comes a novel about Hollywood, the cost of stardom, and selfless second acts, inspired by an extraordinary true story.

Chicago, 1916. Doreen O’Dare is fourteen years old when she hops a Hollywood-bound train with her beloved Irish grandmother. Within a decade, her trademark bob and insouciant charm make her the preeminent movie flapper of the Jazz Age. But her success story masks one of relentless ambition, tragedy, and the secrets of a dangerous marriage.

Her professional life in flux, Doreen trades one dream for another. She pours her wealth and creative energy into a singular achievement: the construction of a one-ton miniature Fairy Castle, the likes of which the world has never seen. So begins Doreen’s public tour to lift the nation’s spirits during the Great Depression—and a personal journey worth remembering.

A sweeping journey from the dawn of the motion picture era through turbulent twentieth-century America, From Dust to Stardust is a breathtaking novel about one determined woman navigating change, challenging the price of fame, and sharing the gift of real magic.

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