“In ‘The Mmm Girl’, Tara Hanks resists the temptation to make Monroe into a strong woman as we today would understand the term, and thereby gives us a far more believable and affecting heroine…no mean feat when time and legend have transformed her into a goddess made of celluloid and rhinestones…“

Faye L. Booth is the author of two lively, unusual historical novels,Cover The Mirrors and the forthcoming Trades Of The Flesh. She has also published a review of The Mmm Girl – read more