Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by The Purple Booker. If you want to join in grab your current read, flick to a random page, select two sentences (without spoilers) and share them in a blog post or in the comments of The Purple Booker.

This week my teaser comes from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, which I’d received from the publisher via NetGalley. I know I totally used this for my teaser last week but there are just so many great quotes I couldn’t resist picking something from it again.

My Teaser

Some marriages aren’t really that great. Some loves aren’t all encompassing. Sometimes you separate because you weren’t that good together to begin with. Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.

74% The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Blurb

Reclusive Hollywood 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 to write her story, no one is more astounded than Monique herself.

Determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career, Monique listens in fascination. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s – and, of course, the seven husbands along the way – Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. But as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, 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, likeable characters” (Real Simple), this is a mesmerizing journey through the splendour of Old Hollywood into the sobering realities of the present day as two women struggle with what it means – and what it costs – to face the truth.