Hollywood actress, sex symbol, the wife of a mid-Essex peer - now author too.

Jamie Lee Curtis can add successful children's author to her long list of credits.

Lady Haden-Guest of Saling, as the villagers of Great Saling, near Braintree, know her, has just had her third book, Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day, published in this country.

After starring in such Hollywood box office hits as True Lies and A Fish Called Wanda, it seems everything she touches turns to gold.

Today, I Feel Silly has already sold 850,000 copies in America and her fourth book, recently released in the US, is leaping up The New York Times children's bestseller list.

A spokesman for her British publishers Harper Collins described her books, which are aimed at children between the ages of four and eight, as zany and touching.

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