Friday's Harbor

by Diane Hammond

  “Featuring a cast of endearingly quirky characters . . . ​this charming story enchants and provides . . . ​lighthearted and poignant moments.”

  —Library Journal

  SEEING STARS

  Ruth believes that her daughter, Bethany, is a terrific little actress. And if Bethany wants to leave the Pacific Northwest for Los Angeles and a merry-go-round of auditions, classes, and callbacks—well, Ruth will lead the way. Hollywood, of course, eats people like Ruth and Bethany for breakfast. Surrounded by other aspiring child stars, stage mothers, managers, and talent agents, Ruth and Bethany will discover just how far they can go, and maybe just how far they want to.

  Also by Diane Hammond

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  Hannah’s Dream

  Homesick Creek

  Going to Bend

  Credits

  Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa

  Cover photograph © Design Pics Inc./Alamy

  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  FRIDAY’S HARBOR. Copyright © 2013 by Diane Hammond. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  FIRST EDITION

  ISBN 978-0-06-212421-0

  EPUB Edition © October 2013 ISBN 9780062124227

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