296 Pages
(Get up on Soapbox, unfurls Pet Peeve) To all writers of historical fiction, it is fine to invent characters and move some unimportant events around slightly to advance the plot but can we please get the main events of history correct? Especially when getting them wrong serves no purpose whatsoever. (Gets off soapbox)
This novel revolves around Julie Crawford who has come to Hollywood to become a screenwriter and her efforts in this vein. As she works her way into the system she gets a job as the personal assistant to Carole Lombard at a time when Lombard is in a relationship with Clark Gable who is filming Gone With The Wind. At the same time Julie is also finding herself and learning about her love interest whose family is back in Europe as World War II is getting off the ground.
Alcott does a very good job of bringing the character of Carole Lombard to life as well as the personalities surrounding Gone with the Wind. The book could have easily been about Lombard since she outshines Julie hands down. My pet peeve was irked when Julie love interest said he was trying to get his brother out of Vichy France and not succeeding. The problem was the year is 1939 in the book and Vichy France did not exist until June 1940. This blatant error took away from the reading experience for me especially since the brother was never mentioned again in the book.
Other than that the book was good, 3 out of 5 stars.
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