This is a YA book from, I believe, the 80s. It’s about a preteen (named Sunday or Sundae) whose mother gets her an agent, so she can audition for TV commercials. I remember that her signature look is a French braid or two braids? She has some difficult auditions including one for peanut butter where she has to do a cartwheel, and the directors loudly discuss how awkward she is in front of all the other girls. She eventually makes a friend who is a young actress who is obsessed with Virginia Woolf’s suicide, and eventually she finds the friend by the ocean wearing a raincoat stuffed with rocks contemplating suicide. I think the book was called Incredible Sunday, but I haven’t been able to find it under that name.
Thanks so much!
I think you’re looking for Adorable Sunday by Marlene Fanta Shyer (1983)
Thirteen-year-old Sunday Donaldson, successful television model and commercial actress, learns there is more to life than just being adorable.
Adorable Sunday, by Marlene Fanta Shyer.
Thank you! That’s it! (Original poster)