The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

A Novel

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Julia Whelan, Robin Miles

Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

2018 Audie Award Finalist for Multi-Voiced Performance

From Taylor Jenkins Reid, "a genius when it comes to stories about life and love" (Redbook), comes an unforgettable and sweeping novel about one classic film actress' relentless rise to the top - the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine.

Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?

Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated. Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jump-start her career.

Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side apartment, Monique listens as Evelyn unfurls her story: from making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the late '80s and, of course, the seven husbands along the way. As Evelyn's life unfolds - revealing a ruthless ambition, an unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love - Monique begins to feel a very a real connection to the actress. But as Evelyn's story catches up with the present, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique's own in tragic and irreversible ways.

Written with Reid's signature talent for "creating complex, likable characters" (Real Simple), this is a fascinating journey through the splendor of Old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day as two women struggle with what it means - and what it takes - to face the truth.

©2017 Rabbit Reid, Inc. All rights reserved. (P)2017 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Taylor Jenkins Reid has captured my heart

This book was so amazing. The different narrators were excellent, they made this an experience. But Taylor's words, this world she created, sigh. I'm currently book drunk and no words can describe my love for this book.

So good..

This book was so hard to stop listening to… so well written and the audio performances just right. I really appreciate this story so much and highly recommend it.

Surprisingly good

I was conflicted as to choosing this book because of the mixed reviews but am so glad I decided to give it a listen. Very compelling and it kept my interest from start to finish. For me, the sign of a good book is when I finish it within a week. And also when things happen in the story that you don’t see coming and that was the case here. Every chance I got I was listening! Evelyn was such an interesting character I found myself wishing she was real so I could google more information about her! So for me this book was a definite winner!

Loved the story - not the perfornance

Rare that I dislike an audiobook performance, but I really hated this one. Main voice was way too old and SO over-acted. Oh well.

I laughed, I cried, I loved it.

This was one of the first audiobooks I've ever been able to finish. I was throughly invested in the characters and their stories. My heartached each time the story turned. I cried at several parts of the ending.

In Love With Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid did an amazing job of creating Evelyn Hugo, and her new young journalist friend, Monique. Evelyn Hugo, a woman who is an aging celebrity, imagine someone like our Marilyn Monroe. She is unique in that she was not "white" in a time of old Hollywood when that was the ideal. She had dreams of making it big, and she was the ballsy woman who knew how to get it done. I love her, and I would like to think I could be like her. She is almost as famous for her films as she is for her many husbands. She did love each one, and they contributed to her career or life in someway or another.

Before Evelyn dies she decides to write her life story. The person she turns to is a young journalist Monique, who is not white either, young, and she questions, along with the world, why Evelyn has chosen her to write her story. The importance of noting the not white is due to when it comes time to write, or publish, Evelyn wants her to get the same amount and accolades that her white, male counterparts would receive. The story is told from two points of view and different timelines. Evelyn tells her stories and transitions from the present to the past. Seeing how this woman started out and turned into the biggest thing in Hollywood is exciting and inspiring. Seeing her different relationships will make you laugh and cry. Monique tells her point of view as she writes and sees the response from people online who wonder why she thinks she is talented enough to handle something of this importance.

The amazing thing is the fact there is a connection. We do not immediately know what it could be, but there is a reason Evelyn specifically chose Monique, and she tells her that it will make Monique unhappy. What could it possibly be? How could these two radically different women have a connection.

Be sure to pick this one up! Listening to the narrators is blissful, like hot butter melting. It is worth the credit and every penny.

Awesome sources of Love

This book was very well written. The author bought about interesting ways about how to find love and to what measures we'd take to reach it. Evelyn Hugo was amazing in the roles she portrayed and all that she did to keep it together. Marrying Harry was one of the best husband's until she married Robert and Cecilia unto death did them part. I recommend this book.

amazing listening

I listen 20 plus hours a week for Years and put this title in my top 2.

entertaining

you won't gain any IQ points listening to this but you will likely be entertained. A good escape.

Fabulous

Great read from start to finish! I will definitely be reading more books by this author!