In this novel from the acclaimed author of A Bridge Across the Ocean
and The Last Year of the War, two women working in Hollywood during
its Golden Age discover the joy and heartbreak of true friendship.
Los Angeles, Present Day. When an iconic hat worn by Scarlett O'Hara
in Gone With the Wind ends up in Christine McAllister's vintage
clothing boutique by mistake, her efforts to return it to its owner take
her on a journey more enchanting than any classic movie....
Los Angeles, 1938. Violet Mayfield sets out to reinvent herself in
Hollywood after her dream of becoming a wife and mother falls apart, and
lands a job on the film-set of Gone With the Wind. There, she meets
enigmatic Audrey Duvall, a once-rising film star who is now a fellow
secretary. Audrey's zest for life and their adventures together among
Hollywood's glitterati enthrall Violet...until each woman's deepest
desires collide.
What Audrey and Violet are willing to risk, for themselves and for each
other, to ensure their own happy endings will shape their friendship,
and their lives, far into the future.
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