The Fiction Writer
by Jillian Cantor
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Pub Date Nov 29 2023 | Archive Date Oct 12 2023
Simon & Schuster (Australia) | Simon & Schuster Australia
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Description
A gripping tale of romance, intrigue and deadly secrets – for fans of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, Colleen Hoover’s Verity and Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
Last night I dreamt I went to Malibu again...
Once-rising literary star Olivia Fitzgerald is in a downward spiral. After her second novel, a retelling of Rebecca, fails, her third novel can’t find a publisher. And Olivia's boyfriend breaking up with her hasn’t helped her creativity much either. Broke, newly single and struggling to write another book, she jumps at the chance for a high-paying ghostwriting job when her agent calls with the opportunity.
It almost seems too good to be true: all she has to do is spend a few weeks in Malibu interviewing Henry ‘Ash’ Asherwood, a recently widowed billionaire recluse, who wants her to write a book about a stunning family secret involving his grandmother and Daphne du Maurier.
But when she arrives at his Malibu estate, nothing is what it seems. For one thing, Ash is strangely reluctant to truly share his family secrets with Olivia, and she keeps catching him in lies. For another, he seems more interested in her than their writing project. (Though is that really such a bad thing?) And when she discovers a more recent secret, Olivia finds herself caught up in a gothic mystery of her own.Can she rewrite the past to reveal the deadly truth?
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781761422423 |
| PRICE | A$32.99 (AUD) |
| PAGES | 304 |
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Featured Reviews
Jacki V, Reviewer
Thanks to Netgalley and Simon & Schuster for letting me read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
The Fiction Writer was well written, intriguing and mysterious. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I would definitely be interested in future novels from Jillian Cantor.
Olivia was a great main character, who had real depth and wasn't a pushover or gullible like many female characters are in thrillers these days. She was strong, determined and very likable.
Ash was mysterious and changeable. I didn't know whether to trust him or not.
The twists were pretty good and it kept me guessing right up until the end, managing to shock me with the final twist.
I highly recommend.
4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Jodi Picoult; Jennifer Finney Boylan
General Fiction (Adult), Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction
