ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'SΒ 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIMEΒ β’Β NATIONAL BESTSELLERΒ β’ A celebrated Hollywood memoir: Brooke Hayward was born to a famous actress and a successful Hollywood agentβbeautiful, wealthy, and living at the very center of the most privileged life America had to offer. Yet at twenty-three her family was ripped apart.
From the moment of its original publication in 1977, Haywire was a national sensation, a celebrated Hollywood story of a glittering family and the stunning darkness that lurked just beneath the surface.Β Who could have imagined that this magical life could shatter, so conclusively, so destructively? Brooke Hayward tells the riveting story of how her family went haywire.
βHaywire is a Hollywood childhood memoir, a glowing tapestry spun with equal parts of gold and pain.... An absolute beauty.β βThe New York Times Book Review