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The Velvet Box is a fascinating portrait of what it is like for Sophie Gordon, a young girl struggling to cope with life while passionately desiring to become an accomplished artist. Her backstage life is filled with competition, jealousies, and disappointments, as well as many colorful backstage characters. All this puts her through a gauntlet of turmoil. Sophies personal life is as dramatic and full of adventure as her professional life. She has two delightful but complicated romances, one with her fellow actor Ian Lennox and the other with Richard Neville, her theatrical impresario. Richard…mehr

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The Velvet Box is a fascinating portrait of what it is like for Sophie Gordon, a young girl struggling to cope with life while passionately desiring to become an accomplished artist. Her backstage life is filled with competition, jealousies, and disappointments, as well as many colorful backstage characters. All this puts her through a gauntlet of turmoil. Sophies personal life is as dramatic and full of adventure as her professional life. She has two delightful but complicated romances, one with her fellow actor Ian Lennox and the other with Richard Neville, her theatrical impresario. Richard has been fascinated with Sophie from the first time he met her. She also has attracted the attention of several royal personages throughout her story. All this while she is trying to reconnect with her father, who has come back into her life after a nine-year absence. These trials and tribulations help Sophie to maneuver into the adult world.
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Autorenporträt
Tracy Grandlinger was born three an a half months premature in1967 at the San Francisco University hospital.Despite the prevailing medical opinions of the time, Tracy and her parents knew that The Force was with her and she has overcome many physical challenges and obstacles throughout her life. She has been exposed to and always fascinated by operas, Shakespeare, fine music and great story telling movies, which have stimulated her creative palette. She has also been an avid reader of classic literature, including such authors as: Tolstoy, Hugo, Dumas, Dickens, The Brontes, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway among others. Tracy graduated from the University of Utah with a B.A. in English. Tracy has always had two passions; one for the theater and the other for English history. Now she has combined these two passions with her gift for story telling to write her first novel, The Velvet Box.