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📖瑞絲薇絲朋Reese’s Book Club選書
📖紐時暢榜即時冠軍
跳脫以往的浪漫溫馨喜劇路線，Emily Henry氣勢恢弘的華麗新作！
專訪撰稿人Alice懷抱著作家夢，雖然目前尚未出版過讓她一舉成名的大作，樂觀的她仍在尋求機會，迎來職涯上的大突破；陰沉寡言的Hayden已在文壇建立聲望，這位普立茲獎作家，似乎到哪裡都挾帶陰冷的暴風雨。
上世紀的驚世豪門名媛Margaret Ives聯絡了兩人，開出一項條件：給兩人一個月的試寫期，再選出誰來替她執筆傳記。
Alice摩拳擦掌，她等待這樣的機會已久，這位大人物的傳記作品，將會是她職涯的重大轉捩點。也因如此，她更加不解已是知名作家的Hayden，為何這麼積極地要來和她搶工作。
多年前，行事充滿爭議的Margaret曾是嗜血媒體追逐的焦點，卻一夕之間消失在大眾視野，留下無數謎團與流言。如今，她向Alice和Hayden分享自己的故事，卻分別對兩人保留了不同部分的真相，兩人只能透過零碎的線索，交互對照，嘗試拼湊出Margeret的真實人生。
兩位作家在尋找真相的過程中，從競爭試探，到逐漸理解並信任對方，直至情愫萌芽，作者在本書中，承襲了以往作品的戀愛主線裡細膩動人的情感描寫與機智幽默的對話鬥嘴，同時拓展了故事的規模，透過一位傳奇名媛的人生故事，描繪了記憶、家庭與自我選擇。Emily Henry藉Margeret那段橫跨數十年的生命歷程，探討個人如何面對自己的過去，以及如何決定留下什麼。
Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: to write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years—or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the twentieth century.
When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.
One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.
Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication.
Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.
But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.
And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad . . . depending on who’s telling it.
