Rose-Tinted Scissors

ISBN: 1849234787

Author: Olivia McMahon

Condition: New

Fleeing Manchester and the prospect of a humdrum marriage to Andrew, the boy next door, 23 year old Lucy arrives in Paris to take up a job in an exclusive hair salon. There she falls in love with fellow hairstylist, Michel, but then she discovers he's married. As she copes with guilt and jealousy, other men appear in her life - Juan, a handsome Mexican, a rock musician, Steve and an importuning Italian colonel, Alberto. Her love life is spinning out of control but her desire to succeed in the hairdressing world remains constant. Then the moment of truth arrives when, along with Michel, she enters a fiercely contested hairdressing competition. 'Rose-tinted Scissors' is the funny and moving story of a young woman caught up in the fashionable and political worlds of early 1960s Paris and Nice, struggling to reconcile her ambition to become a top hairstylist with her desire to find true love.