Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning ambition to write. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for France. But glamorous Jazz Age Paris, full of artists and writers, fuelled by alcohol and gossip, is no place for family life and fidelity. Ernest and Hadley’s marriage begins to founder, and the birth of a beloved son serves only to drive them further apart. Then, at last, Ernest’s ferocious literary endeavours begin to bring him recognition - not least from a woman intent on making him her own . . .
- ‘As much about life and how we try to catch it as it is about love even as it vanishes . . . utterly absorbing’ Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress
- ‘A tragic story of love and betrayal’ Lucy Scholes, Sunday Times
- ‘With vivid, memorable touches . . . McLain captures Hemingway’s legendary charisma, and his fatal tendencies’ Sarah Churchwell, Guardian
- ‘A tempestuous, mesmerising tale’ Marie Claire
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Published 05/01/2012