Introducing Elizabeth Sharland's new novel:
"On The Riviera"
"Balancing the demands of private life with a full time acting career has exercised the minds of actresses from Ellen Terry to Judi Dench. Each had to work out her own solution, and very few have found it easy. This book tells of one such dilemma."
-JOHN MILLER, Biographer of Judi Dench, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Peter Ustinov.
"In the south of France, when the Scott Fitzgeralds, the Murphys, Picasso, and Jean Cocteau lived and worked during the Jazz Age, the French Riviera became famous. Now, Nicole Bennett goes there to retrace their steps and try to discover who followed after them.
Disenchanted with her award-winning acting career as well as her one-year marriage to Nigel, she seeks to make a significant change to her life. She goes to the Riviera and attempts to fulfill her dream of writing a book about the writers who lived and worked in the south of France."
In Cannes, she meets new people and falls in love with the incredible scenery. While redsiscovering the charm and magic of the Riviera, she is influenced by other writers - Graham Greene, Dirk Bogarde, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway - who once walked the same streets and enjoyed the same experiences. It's now up to Nicole to recreate the magic they all found."
-JOHN KNOWLES
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Dirk Bogarde once wrote: "But I think that Life, and with that I do mean Love, come first.... it's the only thing one has in the final seconds - the knowledge that one has had time, and sense, to live, breath, love and enjoy the time one has been given."
Elizabeth Sharland is an actress, author, playwright, musician and artist. Trained at the Guildhall School in London she toured Australia with the Old Vic Company headed by Katharine Hepburn and Robert Helpmann. She
worked for Yul Brynner on his final tour of “The King and I” as his PA across America, and she has had 2 plays produced in London and 3 in New York. This is her 11th book. She lives in London, New York and Palm Beach.