'My father's relationship with me ultimately DESTROYED HIM'.

It was June, four years ago, when Leslie Kenton first contemplated writing about her childhood. 'My friend Gail Rebuck - who was my first editor and is now the chairman of Random House - she told me, "You need to write a memoir." I said, "Gail, I can't. No one would believe it, and the tabloids would go wild." And Gail said, "Who cares? This book will be the bridge between what you have done before and the work you will do afterwards."' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]