The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I read Taylor Jenkins Reid's previous book Daisy and The Six a little while back. I loved it but had to google about 500 times whether it was a true story or not. So, this time I was thankfully wise to her ways and knew that Evelyn Hugo was not a real-life glamorous movie star. However, even if I hadn't read Daisy and the Six, I don't think I would have found this one as confusing. It is written as the product of an interview but in a novel/ auto-biography style whereas Daisy and the Six is written as a full transcript of the interviews. Monique Grant, a journalist at the very beginning of her career, with a couple of successful blogs under her belt and a job as a junior writer at a fashion magazine, gets a call, via her work, from mega-star Evelyn Hugo requesting that she writes an article about an auction of outfits she is about to donate. No one really knows why Monique but she, of course, leaps at the chance. When she gets there Evelyn tells her that, in fact, she w...