The Comeback

Grace Turner was one film away from the Hollywood A-List. On the eve of her first Golden Globe nomination, at the height of her career, she vanished, and nobody around her could explain why.

A year later she is back in Los Angeles, intent on rebuilding her life on terms she sets herself. Then she is asked to present a lifetime achievement award to the director Able Yorke. He directed her every move for eight years, and he is bound up with a secret that has already cost her a great deal.

The Comeback is a contemporary novel set inside the film industry, told from the point of view of a young actress. It deals with power, control and the question of whether speaking out can bring justice. The tone is serious and emotionally direct, and the book moves at a brisk pace towards the award ceremony and the confrontation it sets up.

The story follows Grace as she decides what to do with her silence and her voice, and what she is prepared to risk to be free of the past.