Face Value

By Kathleen Baird-Murray

Small-town reporter Kate Miller has never been a fashion do --until now. Kate Miller is no beauty expert. The rookie reporter from small-town England can't walk properly in a pair of heels and doesn't know the first thing about waxing. But then she receives an incredible phone call. Darling magazine in New York wants her to be their new beauty editor So what if she has no idea whether gray eyeshadow is the new black kohl? Suddenly Kate'along with her deep-discount clothes and hopelessly dated hair'is in the Big Apple, being swept away by the world of fashion. But she better find a way to put a positive spin on plastic surgery for the big yearly supplement or she'll lose everything including the hotshot plastic surgeon-to-the-stars who thinks Kate's beauty is way more than skin deep.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425221458
• ISBN13: 9780425221457
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

What a wonderful find - Loved loved loved this book

Bought this book to take on a relaxing holiday on a boat. So glad I did. Just loved it - seriously couldn't put it down till I'd finished much to the upset of my fellow travellers!! Humourous, insightful and wonderfully real, rounded characters. I totally identified with Kate as she embarked on her journey into the scary world of high glamour and all that comes with it. What the 'Devil wears Prada' is to fashion - 'Face Value' is to beauty & glamour. Whatever your views or values - BUY IT -this book with its details and references really takes you behind the scenes for a peek into a world that let's face it we all have a slight fascination for.

A rollicking plot in unlikely places.

Picked this up in New York JFK last week for a more light hearted read as was tiring of my Mussolini biography and couldn't bear to finish my "Bastard on the Couch" manual which has now clocked more airmiles than a UN envoy since it never leaves my cabin holdall. Well I reluctantly have to use that well coined phrase "I could hardly put it down.." (except for cocktail & meal breaks and occasional hops to the lavatory). Face Value has a cracking plot set in unlikey places such as Maidstone, Kent, via NYC and LA-CA where the action unfolds. Kate Miller, the principal hapless character attracts a mix of amused sympathy early on and one really begins to empathise with her plight and admire her determination and gusto. This book fizzes with humour and quirky details that definitely set it aside from your average chick-lit opus. More interestingly Face Value contains little raunchiness but instead well crafted characters. In parts a subtle uderlying sense of menace makes Kate's meanderings in the world of glamour plastic surgery even more rivetting. Definitely worth attention.