Elizabeth Grant has stood at the helm of her beauty empire for more
than sixty years, regaling admirers with personal stories, notably
one event that nearly killed her. When a German rocket dropped
soundlessly from the sky on a peaceful Sunday in wartime London,
its impact and resultant bomb blast damage took her down, damaged
her face and rendered her almost deaf in one ear. A young makeup
artist at Ellstree Studios, she thought herself so repulsively
scarred, she could no longer face acting luminaries like Vivien
Leigh, Margaret Leighton, and Robert Taylor with any degree of
confidence. "I honestly thought my life was over," Elizabeth says.
But as readers will learn, she easily has more than nine lives.
From that misfortune came salvation. With Elizabeth you will sense
a wealth of wisdom and experience lurking beneath her
self-deprecating wit. A more profound history - one that had lain
hidden for decades - was waiting to be unearthed. Revealing the
multiple sides of Elizabeth was a painstaking labour of love, and
one of our most rewarding journeys. Little by little, she emerged
from self-imposed shadows with shocking and disturbing accounts of
her nightmarish childhood. Years of abuse and neglect had spawned
crushing self-doubt, yet she soldiered on, nursing a remarkable
will to survive at any cost - even daring to reach for the
unreachable. The Elizabeth Grant story spins a cinematic voyage on
three continents, through Heaven and Hell. Compelling, tragic,
wistful and humourous, it charts a unique woman's determination to
overcome every boulder in her path. Her survival is a raw and
powerful testament to human perseverance and her ultimate success
provides inspiration that transcends time.
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