Book promo: "NO ORDINARY WOMAN" by Valerie Byron
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Uploaded by Julybabie4 on Sep 1, 2011
Valerie Byron's back story reads like a script pitched at the TV and movie stars whose lives and loves she shared in the swinging sixties. But it is true - and told with all the candour and raw honesty of a beautiful woman remembering heady days and passionate nights with celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic. She was part of Britain's ground-breaking ITV company, Granada, which made global successes of Coronation Street and many an edgy drama. In America, she worked in the film business and continued to bewitch those who sought to bed her. This is a book that could only have been written by an older, wiser woman but one who knows herself and is at ease with a life well lived.
Valerie Byron's autobiography is a frank and passionate account of her life and times in the TV and movie business in the swinging sixties. It is a tale told by an older woman, still beautiful and bewitching, and at ease with her memories - and her mistakes.
Valerie was a UK war baby but grew up in Beverly Hills, California. She returned to Britain at seventeen, and landed a job with Granada Television in Manchester in the early days of Coronation Street. "There was a great buzz about the place" she said. "These were exciting times and I was surrounded by exciting people. I guess we just did what came naturally."
She dated John Thaw, then a raw, fresh young actor, clearly headed for stardom.
"I always knew John would make it big" Valerie said. "He had that working class edginess about him. Nothing and no-one was going to stand in his way."
But John Thaw was only one of Valerie's many conquests.
"It'd be quicker to say who I didn't date rather than those I did."
Valerie returned to California in 1969 and was hired by the movie producer, Peter Bart. She also worked at Universal Studios and Creative Management Associates as a secretary.
She eventually married and had two children. Now a single woman she has, true to form, fallen in love again. This time, it's with a man twenty five years her junior.
"I couldn't be happier" Valerie said. "It was he who badgered me into writing my story because he said I'd lived so many lives, no one would believe it."
Valerie is now a full time writer and lives in Los Angeles. She is available for interview via valeriefee@aol.com.
Her book, No Ordinary Woman, will be published in the Fall of 2011.
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Can't wait for the book ~ like your trailer!
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