Ava Gardner

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'An extraordinary life of an extraordinary woman ... Gardner's genius was not her work, but, as this book proves, her life' Observer 'Server gets movie stars, and he gets movies ... That's quite a trick for a biographer to pull off - both to immerse himself in his subjects, yet make them utterly his own' Tom Shone, Sunday Times 'Server has gone to extraordinary lengths to track down publicists, make-up artists, servants, friends and neighbours to provide the most intimate, fully rounded portrait ... A great read that allows us to see Gardner in a different light' Glasgow Herald 'In the space of these pages, we befriend, then fall in love with, then finally mourn a remarkably beautiful woman who was surprisingly shy, yet spoke her mind fearlessly (and often colourfully), who thought little of herself as an actress, who lived in a man's world yet managed not to be fooled into losing sight of who she was. She remained, ultimately, free to be herself, no matter what the price' Peter Bogdanovitch, New York Times