Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction

Rating: 8.5/10

After I had finished last year’s Daisy Jones & The Six, and loved it with every fiber of my being, I waded into the authors backlist while awaiting her next book.  And she does not disappoint!

Reclusive Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. An unknown and ambitious reporter is chosen to hear these confessions and encounters her own revelations along the way.

Evelyn loved each and every one of her husbands.  With an emotional complexity and shrewd depth that ensure the reader doesn’t discount her as frivolous or vapid. She is neither. Her story is one of overcoming adversity, racism and sexism to get to the top of her profession. Her failures as much as her triumphs will leave you riveted to the page!

Gossipy, fascinating and poignant, this is my kind of summer read. In addition a delicious twist that will leave the reader utterly content as they turn the last page.

Footnote: Her next book releases May 2021 – Malibu Burning. Set against the backdrop of the surf culture of the 1980’s.  I’m in!

Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of one night, each of their lives will be changed forever.