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KELLY’S mother always tells her to stay away from “those Hollywood types” in What Remains of Me by AL Gaylin (Arrow, £7.99) and with good reason.
But her words, as it turns out, are much too late to save her.
Kelly lives within sight of the Hollywood sign and goes to high school with the children of cinema royalty. What teenager could reasonably be expected to resist all that glamour?
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