Woman Enters Left: A Novel

A woman sets out on a cross-country road trip, unknowingly tracing in reverse the path her mother traveled thirty years before. ôTender, touching, original, and rich with delicious period detail of HollywoodÆs heydayùbuckle up, because youÆll definitely want to go on a road trip after reading this delightful book!öùHazel Gaynor, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home In the 1950s, movie star Louise Wilde is caught between an unfulfilling acting career and a shaky marriage when she receives an out-of-the-blue phone call: She has inherited the estate of Florence ôFlorrieö Daniels, a Hollywood screenwriter she barely recalls meeting. Among FlorrieÆs possessions are several unproduced screenplays, personal journals, andùinexplicablyùold photographs of LouiseÆs mother, Ethel. On an impulse, Louise leaves a film shoot in Las Vegas and sets off for her fatherÆs house on the East Coast, hoping for answers about the curious inheritance and, perhaps, about her own troubled marriage. Nearly thirty years earlier, Florrie takes off on an adventure of her own, driving her Model T westward from New Jersey in pursuit of broader horizons. She has the promise of a Hollywood job and, in the passenger seat, Ethel, her best friend since childhood. Florrie will do anything for Ethel, who is desperate to reach Nevada in time to reconcile with her husband and reunite with her daughter. Ethel fears the loss of her marriage; Florrie, with long-held secrets confided only in her journal, fears its survival. In parallel tales, the three womenùLouise, Florrie, Ethelùdiscover that not all journeys follow a map. As they rediscover their carefree selves on the road, they learn that sometimes the paths we follow are shaped more by our traveling companions than by our destinations.

• | Author: Jessica Brockmole
• | Publisher: Ballantine Books
• | Publication Date: Aug 08, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0399178511
• | ISBN-13: 9780399178511