My Life In Black and White by Kim Izzo

‘My Life in Black and White’ is the second book by Kim Izzo.

Tabloid reporter Clara Bishop feels that life has served her far too slaps and not nearly enough kisses. When she is suddenly jilted by her philandering husband, she follows him to London, determined to win him back. Armed with a suitcase of her grandmothers clothes that she inherited, Clara discovers that clothes really make the woman. Dressed to kill, she adopts a new femme fatale persona and sets out to seek revenge. But on her road to realisation, Clara discovers an unfinished film script that sheds light on her grandmothers mysterious death many years ago. As Clara’s life is transported into a living, breathing film from the fifties, she discovers not only the secrets of her grandmothers but the chance to write her own ending too.

‘My Life in Black and White’ is an absolutely captivating story that had me enthralled from the very start. The story is wonderfully written, transferring from 1952 to present time the story is seen through the eyes of Clara Bishop as she relays her story to a policeman recalling her unlikely adventure in London. Clara, plays the unfortunate femme fatale, determined not to give up on her failed marriage, she follows her husband to London but what transpires is far from the reunion that Clara longs for. With a single suitcase of her grandmothers clothes, a former femme fatale actress, Clara has no choice but to dress like her grandmother in the city and it’s not just Clara’s appearance that changes. Suddenly her life becomes a film noir and she has the female lead, in a world where the year is 1952 and films are created in black and white, Clara herself becomes a different character, she becomes dynamic, confident and sexy as uncovers secrets of grandmothers life.

I loved ‘The Jane Austen Marriage Manual’ but I adored ‘My Life in Black and White’, I thought it was a unique concept, that certainly made for a gripping story. Clara is a great lead character, as the story develops, she changes from a meek, eager to please woman to quite a cocky lady that certainly made for entertaining reading as she left a trail of men in her path.

Beautifully written with fast paced dialogue and breathtaking costumes, ‘My Life in Black and White’ is a witty and glamorous story where hell has no fury like a woman scorned!

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