![]() Evelyn reveals she has no interest in giving an interview for Vivant but instead wants Monique to write her life story, and Monique agrees, though she is suspicious.Įvelyn meets her first husband, Ernie Diaz, at 14. Monique is confused about why Evelyn has chosen her, but goes to Evelyn's apartment to meet her. ![]() ![]() Monique Grant, a reporter for Vivant magazine, has been selected to interview Evelyn Hugo, a reclusive former star, who is auctioning some of her famous gowns to raise money for a breast cancer charity. The book is split into seven parts that are all named after Hugo's husbands in order to chronicle her life during the marriages and affairs she experiences in addition, the titles feature adjectives to emphasize Hugo's feelings and opinions towards them. The novel was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction of 2017. ![]() The novel tells the story of the fictional Old Hollywood star Evelyn Hugo, who, at age 79, gives a final interview to an unknown journalist, Monique Grant. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is a historical fiction novel by American author Taylor Jenkins Reid and published by Atria Books in 2017. Print ( hardcover & paperback), audiobook, e-book ![]()
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An engrossing debut novel explores the lives of emancipated slaves struggling to survive in the years just after the Civil War.Ītakora’s historical novel is set on a ruined plantation in the rural South so remote that its black inhabitants have rarely seen white people in the years since the war ended. ![]() ![]() ![]() I used to watch all the 1960s TV police dramas in my childhood with ‘Auntie Margaret’, a remarkable woman who was the carer at our children’s home in Surrey. I’d always wanted to be a police officer. They thought I’d come from a privileged background, but when they heard I’d been brought up in care, that grabbed their attention and several of them said they thought I should write a book. 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