The Original

Katharine Hepburn was a legend. This is the novel of how she became one. After the devastating loss of her beloved brother young Katharine Hepburn makes two vows: she will become famous and she will never let anyone hurt her again. Leaving behind her East Coast marriage and icy patrician family she arrives in 1930s Hollywood - accompanied by her lover and determined to live on her own terms. But the studio system has rules. And Kate - brilliant bisexual and fiercely independent - refuses to follow them. Drawn into a glittering circle that includes the powerful David and Irene Selznick the dazzling Cary Grant ambitious director John Ford and the millionaire tycoon Howard Hughes she moves through a world of sex ambition and betrayal. As her star ascends Kate faces an impossible choice: become the star Hollywood demands or risk everything to become the woman she always was.