She and her nine-year-old son Frank have done quite well together, but when Mimi loses her fortune in a sort of Ponzi scheme, Mimi knows she needs to write another book in order to continue taking care of herself and her son, but she’s not sure how she’ll manage to write and care for Frank at the same time. Some thirty years before our story opens, she wrote a hugely popular book and has been living off the proceeds ever since. Mimi is a reclusive middle-aged woman who lives in a glass-walled mansion in the hills of California. Add to this the wonderfully skilled narration by Tavia Gilbert, and you’ve got a definite audiobook winner. Be Frank With Me is a delightfully charming story, peopled with characters that practically jump out of it and into your heart. Jackson is an author whose work I greatly admire, I decided to pick Ms. I first took note this début novel by Julia Claiborne Johnson after reading Joshilyn Jackson’s very positive review of the story.
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