Everyone knows Evelyn Hugo’s seven husbands. Nobody knows who she really loved.
Aging screen legend Evelyn Hugo has spent decades captivating the world with her beauty, ambition, scandalous love life, and seven famous marriages.
Now, after years of silence, she is finally ready to reveal the truth.
But instead of choosing an experienced celebrity journalist, Evelyn summons an unknown magazine reporter named Monique Grant and offers her the opportunity of a lifetime: to write her biography.
As Monique listens to Evelyn’s extraordinary story, she is drawn into a dazzling world of Old Hollywood glamour, ruthless ambition, heartbreaking sacrifice, and forbidden love. From her rise to fame in 1950s Los Angeles to the secrets she guarded throughout her legendary career, Evelyn reveals the truth behind the headlines that fascinated the world for decades.
But as the interview unfolds, Monique begins to realise that Evelyn’s story is not just about the past.
It’s about her.
Compulsively readable, emotionally unforgettable, and filled with shocking revelations, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is a sweeping novel about fame, identity, love, sacrifice, and the price of becoming a legend.