ONLY SAY GOOD THINGS: SURVIVING PLAYBOY AND FINDING MYSELF BY CRYSTAL HEFNER. (2024) BOOK REVIEW BY SANDRA HARRIS. ©

ONLY SAY GOOD THINGS: SURVIVING PLAYBOY AND FINDING MYSELF BY CRYSTAL HEFNER. (2024) PUBLISHED BY EBURY SPOTLIGHT: AN IMPRINT OF EBURY PUBLISHING. BOOK REVIEW BY SANDRA HARRIS. © This memoir is a fascinating read. In 2008, Crystal Harris, then aged twenty-one, was an American beauty who didn’t know in what direction she should be heading in life. Her beloved father Ray, a musician, had died when she was a teenager and she felt lost without him for years afterwards. She was close to her mother, who remarried shortly after her husband Ray’s death, but she was conscious of having to make a life for herself, independent of family. In 2008, that fateful year, while working as a model, she was invited to a snazzy Halloween costume party at the Playboy Mansion in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles, California, an exclusive address for the super-rich. At the Mansion, she met Mr. Playboy himself, Hugh Hefner, who had founded the Playboy magazine in 1953 with a loan from his mother. The ...