Product Description What happens when a girl tries to grow up in a world where everyone wants her to remain a child?Hayley Mills' teenage decade in Hollywood produced some of the era's greatest coming-of-age family movies: classics like Pollyanna, The Parent Trap and In Search of the Castaways, and in Britain the acclaimed Whistle Down the Wind. These films made Hayley a genuine teen idol and a household name. Now and for the first time, Hayley reveals the truth of her own coming-of-age story, in her own words - a story of incredible twists of fate and fortune, but also mismanagement, bankruptcy, family crisis and dislocation.Told with characteristic warmth, honesty and humour, Hayley takes us back in time to a bygone era, charting a journey from her carefree childhood innocence in post-war Britain, growing up in the shadow of her famous theatrical family, to being propelled into the Technicolor boomtown of 1960s Hollywood, where she is mentored to stardom by Walt Disney himself. Review An affectionate but clear-eyed memoir of an unusual career that began at the tender age of 12 ― INDEPENDENT Book Description A beautifully written memoir by the British Oscar-winning child star of the 1960s who starred in Pollyanna, T he Parent Trap and Whistle Down the Wind About the Author Hayley Mills was born in London in 1946. Her seven-picture deal with Walt Disney made her an international star, and she won an Honorary Oscar at the age of 13. She lives in Barnes, London SW13.
