The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Published: June 2017

Pages: 389

After a lifetime, Evelyn Hugo—the emeritus movie star—will break her secretiveness. She will give an exclusive, truthful retelling of her glittering time in Hollywood—and without holding back. For this opportune interview she has handpicked the unknown reporter Monique Grant. Why her? Why now? Just divorced and with her professional life dwindling, Monique is more clueless than the runner ups. Nevertheless, she will use the profile as a stepping stone for her spectral reporting. Called to Evelyn’s palatial apartments, Monique writes as the starlet dictates—starting with her entrance to the Los Angeles stage in the 1950s and ending with her retreat from show business in the ‘80s—and the seven husbands in between. But as she listens to Evelyn unspool her life’s story, eerie convergences with her own pile up.