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Bestselling novelist Daisy Waugh discusses her new novel, Melting the Snow on Hester Street, with fellow novelist Rachel Hore. Set in Hollywood in 1929, Melting the Snow is a tale of glamour, romance, scandal and decadence that follows a high-society couple, actor and actress Maximilian and Eleanor Beecham,  who are on the brink of bankruptcy and divorce. An invitation to a legendary weekend house party at Hearst Castle offers them one last chance to save all.

Waugh is a journalist, travel writer, novelist and television presenter. Her novels include The Desperate Diary of a Country Housewife and Last Dance with Valentino. Hore is author of The Dream House, The Memory Garden and The Glass Painter’s Daughter, shortlisted for Romantic Novel of the Year 2010.