Starlight by Anne Douglas (audio-book)
5/10
This is my usual car-journey fodder! I gave it 5/10 because, although it is not great fiction, it served the purpose that I borrowed it for - to keep me distracted and amused on my commutes.
Jess gets much desired job in gorgeous cinema in pre-war Edinburgh. She is only a mere box-office clerk, but everyone predicts she will go far, and she does. The film they are showing when she starts work is 'Jezebel' with Bette Davies, which is one of my all time favourite films.
She loves handsome Ben the projectionist, but he loves and marries her beautiful sister. As second prize she marries Rusty, the assistant projectionist, who she learns to love.
The war comes, and everything changes, Luckily our heroes come back alive, but Rusty has turned to drink. When handsome Ben is divorced by the good-for-nothing sister (who might sleep around but the book is too polite to mention it) he tempts Jess away from Rusty. At the last minute however, she knows who she really loves, and is relieved to find that Rusty is getting help for alcoholism.
During all this, the cinema is sold to be demolished, and that is VERY SAD INDEED.
Dear reader, you will note that I did not attempt to summarise the story of Wolf Hall.
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