Introducing Vivien Leigh Reid: Daughter of the Diva

by Yvonne Collins, Sandy Rideout, Ana Huang

Leigh can think of a million ways she'd rather spend a summer besides visiting her movie star mother, Annika. But her dad insists the two need some "mother/daughter bonding time," and packs fifteen-year-old Leigh off to Ireland, where she'll be her mom's personal assistant on the set of her latest film, "Danny Boy." It could be worse. Annika may be a distant, self-absorbed diva, but Sean, the young, hot co-star, has a brogue to die for, and things...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312338376
• ISBN13: 9780312338374
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Griffin
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Introducing A Great Summer Read

This is an amazing book, but not just because it has romance, tears, laughter, culture of an Irish nature, relationship building, and much much more. It is because it touches the reader personally. There are so many characters that you can love and hate but it is extremely fun doing both. It all starts in the summer when Leigh is sent Ireland to a movie where her mother (known as the woman that left Leigh and her father for a not so great acting career) is playing the leading lady. Leigh starts off on what seems like a train reck of a summer but she will soon find her place on set, literraly. A fun and fabulous tale of boyfriends, love, right and wrong, friendship, and of course the mother daughter battle of the century, over more than one thing. By the end of her summer she has had the experience of a lifetime and has gained a new relationship with the mother she never really felt connected to. Other than the fact that Leigh has the same beauty mark her mother has. You'll read it in a flash and be begging for more, which is okay since we are all awaiting the sequal. I loved Introducing Vivien Leigh Reid: Daughter of A Diva it just had everything that makes a great book great.

Mother diva , daughter in training

this book shows how a mother and a daughter who barely ever saw each other, become not the best of friebnds but get to know each other better then befor. Mother is a diva who last saw her daughter 3 christmases ago! what a great book.

I. LOVED. THIS. BOOK!!!!!!!

I am an adult who loves teen books and I ADORED THIS ONE. The story of a 15 year old (or is it 16, 17...???) who ends up being "stuck" on a movie set with her mother (who she doesn't really know). Although the premise could be very sad, the author(s) write this book and especially the Vivien (or is it Leigh) character with such humour that you can't stop yourself from laughing out loud (which I actually did). Usually this stuff NEVER happens to me when I am reading a book. I absolutely loved everything about this book and frantically went through both the beginning and end of the book to see if these authors have written other stuff. Unfortunately, they have not BUT the second installment in the Diva series is coming out in 2006. I am anxiously awaiting it already. BUY THIS ONE

really, really funny!

If you like reading Meg Cabot's books, check out this new novel. And, if you've ever thought of being a movie star, definitely check this out!