LIZA WITH A Z - Tapa dura

Liza Minnelli sings, dances, acts and pulsates with a fascinating and rare vitality. Daughter of the legendary Judy Garland, she has lived an extraordinary and unconventional life. Liza with a 'Z' explores Minnelli's work on stage and screen, including Cabaret and New York, New York, and takes us right up to the present day with her relationship and subsequent marriage to producer David Gest. The book also documents the full story of the couple's wedding and their adoption of a three-year old girl; Liza's brave fight to lay off the drugs and booze (a story that runs parallel to Judy Garland's) and her determination to lose 100 pounds in weight and recapture her vitality - all of which she has triumphantly achieved.

Michael Freedland, author of a number of acclaimed Hollywood biographies, including Jack Lemmon: Some Like it Cool (also published by Robson Books), has talked to many of the defining people in Liza's life to produce a compelling and authoritative biography of a great star.