The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2017
A reclusive screen legend picks an unknown journalist to write her life story, and starts with the seven husbands.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Taylor Jenkins Reid writes about famous people—screen stars, rock singers, tennis champions—and keeps her eye on the private cost of all that public shine. Her books share a pull toward the moment a career and a life collide, and a sympathy for the people standing just outside the spotlight. Start with «The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo» for the slow unburdening of a life story, or «Daisy Jones & The Six» if you like a story told in many voices, each certain of a different truth.
Feels like love, ambition and family.
Start with The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
Reid frames Evelyn's memories with fictional magazine features, bylines and all — the settled print version of a life that the novel then takes apart.
Watch how quickly a life gets summarised when someone else is writing.
Hugo has weathered her share of Hollywood scandals, not the least of which being her seven marriages, including her decades-long relationship with film producer Harry Cameron. The two Hollywood insiders shared a daughter, Connor Cameron, who is no doubt the influence for the auction. Ms. Cameron passed away last year from breast cancer soon after turning 41. Books by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2019
A rock band's rise, told as an oral history by everyone who lived it—and the singer at the center no one can agree on.
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2021
One family, one legendary Malibu party, and the marriage that made them: famous parents, and the children left holding the house.
Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2025
One CAPCOM, a shuttle crew she trained with, and a mission going wrong in real time — mission control procedure as a story about the people who talk each other through danger.
Carrie Soto Is Back
Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2022
A retired tennis champion comes back for one last season to defend her Grand Slam record, with her father, her body and her pride on the line.
After I Do
Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2014
A marriage goes quiet, and a wife and husband take a year apart to find out whether love can be rebuilt or only remembered.
One True Loves
Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2016
A woman rebuilt her life after her husband vanished; now, engaged to someone new, she gets a phone call. A novel about timing and second chances.
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