Paula Byrne

Mirror, Mirror


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      William Collins

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2020

      Copyright © Paula Byrne 2020

      Cover design by Heike Schüssler

      Cover photographs © Sunset Boulevard/Getty Images, Shutterstock

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      Source ISBN: 9780008307097

      Ebook Edition © January 2020 ISBN: 9780008270568

      Version: 2020-11-28

      For Christine Marie

       A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite

      Elizabeth Fishel

      Mirrors from Lohr were so elaborately worked that they were accorded the reputation of always speaking the truth and became a favourite gift at European crown and aristocratic courts. Uniquely, the mirrors also talked, in aphorisms like one that reads in the upper corner of a frame: Elle brille à la lumière (She is such a beauty).

      Karlheinz Bartels, Schneewittchen: zur Fabulologie des Spessarts (Lohr am Main, 2012)

      I don’t remember who started the rumor that Mars was scheduled to collide with the Earth that summer of 1938 … the next summer, not Mars, but a little man in Berlin changed the course of human history.

      Maria Riva, Marlene Dietrich by her Daughter (New York, 1993)

      Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Dedication

      5  Epigraphs

      6  Contents

      7  Prologue

      8  The Devil is a Woman

      9 Someday I’ll Find You

      10  The Scarlet Empress

      11  I Like America

      12  The Garden of Allah

      13  Sigh No More

      14  Stage Fright

      15  This Time Tomorrow

      16  The Lady is Willing

      17  Bonne Nuit, Merci

      18  The Little Napoleon

      19  The Party’s Going with a Swing

      20  The Woman One Longs For

      21  Farewell Song

      22  Manpower

      23  Dream Girl

      24  Song of Songs

      25  I’m Old Fashioned

      26  Follow the Boys

      27  Poor Lady in the Throes of Love

      28  A Modern Dubarry

      29  There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner

      30  Desire

      31  You’re the Top

      32  I Loved a Soldier

      33  World Weary

      34  A Foreign Affair

      35  The Stately Homes of England

      36  The Ship of Lost Souls

      37  I Wonder What Happened to Him?

      38  The Spoilers

      39  Down with the Whole Damn Lot

      40  I Kiss your Hand, Madam

      41  Love a Little

      42  Angel

      43  Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans

      44  I Am a Camera

      45  Cowardy Custard

      46  Around the World in 80 Days

      47  This is a Changing World

      48  No Highway in the Sky

      49  Top of the Morning

      50  Leap into Life

      51  Twentieth Century Blues

      52  The Big Bluff

      53  Wait a Bit, Joe

      54  Man by the Roadside

      55  When My Ship Comes Home

      56  The Imaginary Baron

      57  When We Were Girls Together

      58  Heads Up, Charley

      59  Ace of Clubs

      60  Touch of Evil

      61  Let’s Do It

      62  Madame Doesn’t Want Children

      63  Bitter Sweet

      64  Knight without Armour

      65  Sail Away

      66  Why Cry at Parting?

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