Review: The Fiction Writer - Jillian Cantor

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Review: The Fiction Writer - Jillian Cantor - September 2023

This book had me at the title and then as I opened it up, I was thrust into a world that fans of Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier will love. This book is for all those fans who wish they could read a modern-day take on the Rebecca story. It was just as twisted and then it also weaved in facts from the real story with Daphne Du Maurier and how she was accused of plagiarism of the story and then touched on the book set in the islands - Wide Saragossa Sea by Jean Rhys. The book starts with our main character during a  writer's block when she is approached to ghostwrite a story for a reclusive actor. Olivia accepts the invitation to meet him and is soon thrust into the crazy world of Henry Asherwood as she starts to learn about the females and the males in the lineage line and discovers that the females were all successful at one point, but slowly faded as the men rose and then the females were tossed aside and it looked like the only way to escape was death or to fake their death and disappear. Can Olivia be saved when she starts unraveling the pieces and learns that her story Becky and her past are closer to Henry's world than she ever realised as she learns that back in university, she crossed paths with the former Mrs. Henry Asherwood. The Fiction Writer also touched on a topic about writing what you know and that fiction is a mixture of make-believe with a few hidden truths and facts sprinkled into the story. If you love twists on classic novels, then Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer is the read for you.

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