Synopsis
George and Meyera Buchanan have it all: classic cars, private planes, speedboats, lavish holidays, and luxury homes – everything but a baby. They decide to adopt, soon divorce and a battle royal is waged between New York and California for custody of their daughter Catherine. Shunted between Malibu and the Hamptons, and subjected to outrageous behavior on both coasts Catherine is witness to how affluence, ambition, and alcoholism consumes and destroys the Buchanan clan.
Edgy, fast-paced, and funny, Girl in Flight is a coming-of-age memoir set in Manhattan and Hollywood during the 60s and early 70s. An orphan story unlike any other it will entertain, inform, and inspire.
Author Bio
Cat Buchanan is a skilled nonfiction writer, television producer, and media lawyer. She has a varied educational background and has degrees from London School of Economics and Political Science, Pepperdine University School of Law, and Sarah Lawrence College. Cat started out in the legal field as in-house lawyer for Granada Television before moving to the independent production sector and became well-known for her critically praised rock ‘n’ roll documentaries. Her love of narrative in the legal and artistic spheres inspired her to investigate nonfiction writing. Cat has lived in London for a long time and has managed to combine her passion for media with her artistic projects. Having lived on both sides of the Atlantic, Cat’s life narrative is just as interesting as her career trajectory. She provides readers with an insight into the particular difficulties of wealth and family, having grown up between two opulent yet volatile worlds. Her first memoir, Girl in Flight, describes how she navigated a complicated upbringing full of ambition, greed, and solipsism as the adoptive daughter of two affluent but dysfunctional parents. Cat raises awareness of the hidden hardships that lie beneath a life of privilege.
