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Two-Faced

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Mia and Michelle couldn't look more alike - or act more differently. Mia's always been the glamorous one, the one everyone wants to get close to. And now she's a model, on the edge of fame.

But Mia can't resist the illegal thrills that come with fame. When disaster strikes, her mousy look-alike sister has to pretend to be Mia. Michelle saves her career, and turns out to have star quality too. She's even got someone to fall in love with her - a man Mia wants almost as much as she wants to be a supermodel.

That's something Mia will never, ever forgive . . .

Praise for Two-Faced

  • A cracking read that will chill you to the bone. - Sun

  • Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel. - Martina Cole on FORGET ME NOT

  • A glamorous nightclub hides a seedy underworld that Heller knows only too well. - Daily Express on THE CLUB

  • Gripping . . . powerful writing. - Scotland on Sunday on FORGET ME NOT

  • Cracking page-turner . . . a gritty compassionate account of life on the margins. - Manchester Evening News on FORGET ME NOT

  • Alarming . . . beguiling . . . exhilarating. - Scotsman on THE FRONT

Mandasue Heller

I wrote my first book when I was taken ill and had to quit singing for a while. I based it in the Hulme Crescents, where I had spent 10 of some of the best and absolute worst years of my life. It was a squatters paradise when I moved in, and a notorious no-go zone for the police. Violent crimes were commonplace and drugs were rife. I saw a fair few friends get sucked into the hell of addiction - and lost too many of them because of it. Those were the bad times, but then the musicians and artists started moving in. A friend once described it as being like Glastonbury all year round, and it really was. I wanted to capture the spirit of the place in my writing - the good and the bad; but I quickly discovered that I couldn't write about real people. I'd start, but then I'd become conscious of what they might think of it and that would inhibit me. So I decided to take a stab at inventing characters instead, using the Crescents as the backdrop for their stories. And, guess what? It worked!

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