Hollywood

Selected by Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino 2026

An Italian girl who has a list for everything.
A Hollywood actor who's total chaos.
A movie that could save his career... and ruin her life.

Hollywood, 1999: where reality is just another script.
Tilde Costa is twenty-five, has the attitude of a general, and a list for everything. She'd do anything for her beloved little brother Riccardo, an aspiring screenwriter. Even take on an impossible job: becoming John Hunter's personal assistant.
The problem? John Hunter is the most unmanageable star in Hollywood.
He's a gorgeous, famous, and completely out of control actor: brawler, playboy, unreliable. Everyone in the industry avoids him like the plague. If his next film fails, his career is over.
Tilde's only job is to keep John in line during the filming of his new movie. Easy, in theory.
But there's a vindictive ex, a temperamental actress, pushy families, a cocaine-addicted director... and even a fire that make things difficult.
And while Hollywood creates perfect illusions, something happens between Tilde and John that no one could predict. Because there's a fundamental difference between fiction and reality: fictional stories follow a script.
Real ones don't.

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