Released on June 13, 2017, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid draws back the velvet curtain on a fictional Hollywood legend whose beauty, marriages and scandals have long concealed the only story that truly mattered: her own.

At seventy-nine, Evelyn Hugo summons Monique Grant, an unknown magazine reporter, to record the account the public has never been permitted to hear. The invitation is inexplicable; the opportunity is irresistible. As Evelyn begins to speak, the glittering history of old Hollywood gives way to a more dangerous record of ambition, reinvention, compromise and a love the world was not prepared to allow.

When a Woman Reclaims the Narrative

Reid understands the mythology of stardom: the gowns preserved behind glass, the photographs edited into permanence, the marriages reduced to chronology. Yet she is most interested in what such mythology demands from the woman trapped inside it.

Evelyn emerges not as an emblem of scandal, but as a woman of immense appetite and intelligence, forced to negotiate between public survival and private truth. Her choices are not always comfortable; they are always recognizably human.

Old Hollywood, New Questions

Through Monique’s listening presence, the novel becomes a meditation on who is permitted to tell history and which truths are deemed acceptable only after time has softened their consequences.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is at once a sweeping portrait of fame and an intimate examination of identity, sacrifice and the cost of being loved only in secret.

About the Book

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid follows an aging Hollywood star who selects an unknown journalist to write her life story, revealing the truth behind seven marriages, a ruthless ascent to fame and one defining love.

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