A golden life a novel

"It's 1938, and twenty-five-year-old secretary Frances Healey is ready for a fresh start. Hoping to forget her painful past, she takes a job working for Hollywood producer Lawrence Merrill. She quickly becomes absorbed in VistaGlen Studios's biggest project: a movie about Kitty Ridley, the legendary...

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Main Author: Moyer, Ginny Kubitz (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, [2024]
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Summary:"It's 1938, and twenty-five-year-old secretary Frances Healey is ready for a fresh start. Hoping to forget her painful past, she takes a job working for Hollywood producer Lawrence Merrill. She quickly becomes absorbed in VistaGlen Studios's biggest project: a movie about Kitty Ridley, the legendary stage actress who disappeared from the public eye in 1895. The movie will be the making of Belinda Vail, a beautiful ingenue who is hungry for a breakout role--and also happens to be Mr. Merrill's love interest. But the real Miss Ridley has other ideas. Now ninety years old, she writes a scathing letter insisting the studio halt production of the film. Hoping to change her mind, Frances and Mr. Merrill embark on a trip to find the actress--only to land in a Victorian farmhouse in the Napa Valley. But as she learns the truth of Miss Ridley's life, Frances finds herself confronting the very past she's been trying to forget. And with the arrival of the ambitious Belinda, loyalties will be tested, bonds will be forged, and Frances will learn where true happiness lies. Set in Hollywood and the sun-drenched Napa countryside, A Golden Life explores friendship, forgiveness, and the power of honoring your own story."--
Physical Description:326 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:1647427223
9781647427221
Author Notes:Ginny Kubitz Moyer is an award-winning author of twentieth-century historical fiction. The Seeing Garden , her debut novel, won Silver in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in Historical Fiction, and her second novel, A Golden Life , was named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2024. An avid weekend gardener, Ginny lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.