The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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4.4 • 263 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Everyone knows Evelyn Hugo's seven husbands. Nobody knows who she really loved.
Aging screen legend Evelyn Hugo has spent decades captivating the world with her beauty, ambition, scandalous love life, and seven famous marriages.
Now, after years of silence, she is finally ready to reveal the truth.
But instead of choosing an experienced celebrity journalist, Evelyn summons an unknown magazine reporter named Monique Grant and offers her the opportunity of a lifetime: to write her biography.
As Monique listens to Evelyn's extraordinary story, she is drawn into a dazzling world of Old Hollywood glamour, ruthless ambition, heartbreaking sacrifice, and forbidden love. From her rise to fame in 1950s Los Angeles to the secrets she guarded throughout her legendary career, Evelyn reveals the truth behind the headlines that fascinated the world for decades.
But as the interview unfolds, Monique begins to realise that Evelyn's story is not just about the past.
It's about her.
Compulsively readable, emotionally unforgettable, and filled with shocking revelations, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is a sweeping novel about fame, identity, love, sacrifice, and the price of becoming a legend.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
It sounds like a predictable rags-to-riches tale: Evelyn Hugo, a humble daughter of Cuban immigrants, arrives in Hollywood in the '50s and claws her way to the top. Now pushing 80, she picks unknown writer Monique Grant to tell her story—which isn't so predictable after all. Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel glitters with the drama and scandal you’d expect from a Hollywood tell-all, but it also explores weightier issues like racism and discrimination. This is a tantalising read for those who crave a peek behind the curtains of celebrity and offers an honest perspective on sacrifice and vulnerability.
Customer Reviews
Stunning Evelyn and and no so Monique
With every page more and more I got carried away into the story and into deep care about Evelyn, her love and her truth. And in the same time couldn’t find any compassion to the another main character, Monique, who ‘writes’ Evelyn’s story. Such plain and lacklustre character.
Maybe I would get more into her if I could ‘read’ her articles or maybe there wasn’t need for that because she was a good background for the intense colours of Evelyn. Don’t know.
What I know is that the story is pleasant to read and the story can give you a couple of thoughts to think and a couple of tiers to drop.
Hope you’ll enjoy Evelyn’s path for search of love and piece with herself.
Fabulous
Loved every minute of this book!!
Another great one
Great book, would love to meet Evelyn Hugo