FOREVER YOUNG: A Memoir

Mentored to stardom by Walt Disney himself, Hayley reveals the truth of her own coming-of-age story in her own words, a story of incredible twists of fate and fortune, but also mismanagement, bankruptcy, family crisis and dislocation. What happens when a girl grows up in a world where everyone wants her to remain a child? Hayley's teenage decade in Hollywood produced some of the greatest family movies, classics like Pollyanna, The Parent Trap and In Search of the Castaways, and in Britain the acclaimed Whistle Down the Wind. Overnight, Hayley became a household name at the tender age of 12. Her memoir touches on growing up in a family of performers and she evokes a lost empire of mid-20th century Hollywood in her warm-hearted peek-behind-the-curtain at filmmaking in the 1960s. Mills won a BAFTA Award for her performance in the British crime drama Tiger Bay and her seven-picture deal with Walt Disney made her an international star and included her dual role as the twins Sharon and Susan in The Parent Trap. She was just 14 when she made Pollyanna and continued to make films and TV and drama among them as Caroline in Wild At Heart on ITV. Never a dull passage, 394pp in paperback, 16 pages of colour and black and white photos including hanging on to the mast of the Swiss Family Robinson shipwreck in Tobago, 1959.