Gwyneth

This biography of influential and polarising Hollywood A-List star Gwyneth Paltrow is a treat, regarding its subject as a cultural mystery to be answered by interviewing hundreds of former friends and colleagues. A social history of Paltrow’s life emerges from her charismatic parents’ successes and her unique response to schooling, through to her Academy Award-winning acting career, her work in fashion and more recently the wellness industry. Thoughtful and immensely detailed, Paltrow is a suitably gnomic subject to follow on from Odell’s previous subject in her popular biography of Anna Wintour. “Brimming over with gossip,” said the Guardian.