Typewriter Beach is the newest book in the Meg Waite Clayton collection. What a wonderful historical novel. This is another time stamped novel with paralllel plots taking the reader back and forth between 1957 and 2018. In '57 Isabella Giori arrives in Carmel in the dead of night to quietly wait out a mistake she made while filming her first movie picture. As she waits in the cottage owned by the studio so they will keep her under contract and loan her out to Alfred Hitchcock she meets Leon Chazen who is a writer. He has been blacklisted accused by others in the McCarthy Senator and his communist surveillance of the movie industry.
2018 Gemma Chazen comes back to Carmel to spread her grandfather's ashes and empty his cottage. She meets Sam who is living across the way. He is working on creating computer games and was friendly with Leon. Also living in the cottage next door is Isabella an aging movie star. As their lives all start to interconnect we learn the back story that brings us to the three characters in Carmel now.
Secrets are revealed, friendships are made, love develops and is recognized. A beautifully told story that captures the views and beliefs of the time period. The seriousness of the red scare and the unfair way women were treated in Hollywood. The characters are especially well developed.
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