I cannot believe how much information is just divulged, willy-nilly, right there on the book jacket. It pretty much gives away the entire first half of the story, which is crazy. In fact, don't read the official book blurb before going in. and Maud Dixon.Īnd that's all I'm going to say regarding the plot, because anymore would be spoiling the goodies. Unfortunately, she isn't getting any closer to her goal, until a series of choices upends her life and puts her on a collision course with destiny. She's not happy with her slavish job, but feels it's a stepping stone to becoming the famous and revered writer that she is meant to be. Enter Florence Darrow, an assistant at a publishing company.
She is a novelist who has won critical acclaim and commercial success, but no one knows the identity of the person behind the pseudonym. (Mar.Who Is Maud Dixon? That is indeed the question. This darkly comic take on contemporary publishing may well leave readers asking, “Who is Alexandra Andrews?” Agent: Jennifer Joel, ICM Partners. And with that the game truly is afoot as Florence scrambles to figure out the nature of what will prove to be Helen’s fiendish master plot, barreling full-speed towards a breathtaking series of Highsmith-style twists and a stunning conclusion. Especially after Florence wakes up in the hospital following a car crash to find no trace of Helen, but instead a gendarme insistent that she is in fact Helen, an understandable error given the name on the car rental paperwork as well as Helen’s soggy ID. But when the pair embark on a research trip to Morocco, things become considerably more complicated. Initially, all goes swimmingly as Florence’s charismatic new boss-real name Helen Wilcox, and at 32 only a few years her senior-seems keen on mentoring Florence. Then fate intervenes-an offer to become the live-in writing assistant to a literary supernova who uses the pseudonym Maud Dixon.
When aspiring novelist Florence Darrow, the protagonist of Andrews’s devilishly plotted debut, gets fired from her dogsbody job at a Manhattan publishing house, she faces the prospect that she might not be destined for greatness after all.
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