Sheila Gibbs : Dreamtown

DREAMTOWN (Fiction Factory 19) Hollywood in the early nineteen-fifties. A town full of energy, money, creativity, and thousands of talented young people. Teenager Rosa Valdez lives with her filmstar mother in a luxurious pink marble house with a swimming pool shaped like a giant heart. Life for Rosa is good — too good to last. One day Rosa’s mother finds that she can no longer get any work. Her name is on a blacklist of so called 'communists' and their 'sympathisers'. Overnight close friends and colleagues turn their backs on Rosa and her mother. Without money Rosa’s world collapses around her and she sees what reality is like outside the Hollywood dream.

FICTION FACTORY is a new series of English readers comprised entirely of original, unedited texts. The stories are exciting and gripping, designed to appeal to readers of all ages who have studied English for two or more years.

FICTION FACTORY deals with themes and issues of interest and relevance to modern readers and touches upon a wide variety of cultural, geographic and historical areas. They are easy to read and ideal for both classroom work and individual reading for pleasure.

FICTION FACTORY books are attractively designed and illustrated, and recordings of the texts are also available on cassettes.