FocusOnStyle.com - December 2008
A delish tale that you will want to read cover to cover.
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OK Magazine - September 2008
Brit humor with an American twist surrounds this plastic-surgery-obsessed romp through the glamorous — and sometimes ghastly — world of media.
The Good Web Guide
“If you take one book to the beach this summer, let it be Face Value by Kathleen Baird-Murray – a highly readable, wickedly indulgent read.”
Sienna Guillory - Actress
“How nice to find a heroine that isn’t a dropout and a self doubting ninny, I love the way she’s so vehemently self righteous and brazenly clueless.”
TRINNY WOODALL: co-host of What Not To Wear
“A great read. Re-affirms my Botox.”
MARIAN KEYES, best-selling author of Anybody Out There and This Charming Man
“I read it in one sitting, from beginning to end, which says a lot! You’ve chosen a fascinating subject for a novel and your prose is deliciously taut and sparky. I’m sure so many thousands of readers will find the expose of the plastic surgery industry - and indeed the symbiotic relationships between womens’ magazines and the beauty industry - highly educational….
It really is rare for popular fiction to handle such an incendiary controversial subject so well and it would be fantastic to reach as wide an audience as possible. Face Value deserves endorsement from a heavy-hitter. Congratulations on such a worthy debut novel.
POPPY KING: creator of Lipstick Queen lipsticks, and author of Lessons of a Lipstick Queen, Finding and Developing the Great Idea that Can Change Your Life (Atria books)
“Face Value is the best of both worlds. A fun and fantastic romp through the world of glamour as only a true insider can know. And only a true insider with the intelligence and empathy of Kathleen Baird-Murray could so entertainingly deal with the question we have been dying to ask…has the world gone mad? Read it and see. I loved it”
