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This book is all sorts of wonderful and demands repeated
readings.
Daphne DeMonet, an immensely famous movie star passes in her
late eighties. The announcement of her death has one little intriguing thing at
the end: “survived by her longtime companion”. The longtime companion is Eleanor
Burnett. Bailey Hampton is a kickass researcher and she is roped in to
interview Eleanor for Daphne’s biography. Bailey is not entirely pleased about
the fact that the biographer, who had approached Eleanor earlier, believes that
Bailey will get the interview because of the gay-angle and connect between her
and Eleanor. However, Bailey needs the extremely attractive fee because she and
her partner, Chelsea Parker split a few months back and in their relationship,
Chelsea, a university teacher, was the better earner. Unbeknownst to Bailey,
Chelsea is also seeking an interview with Eleanor for her own biography about
Daphne. Eleanor agrees to be interviewed by both the women, but only together.
There are two love stories in this book, both different and
both thoroughly engaging. The long (over sixty years) wild but completely heart-grabbing
ride of the Daphne-Ellie story is the anchor and the catalyst for Bailey and Chelsea
finding their way back to each other. The Bailey-Chelsea story is a little less
awesome, because while Chelsea is absolutely wonderful, Bailey didn’t quite
reach the same wow-level.
This is most definitely one of the best lesfic book and
totally unmissable.
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