So who knew about the liaison between Jack London’s wife and the illusive Harry Houdini? And who knew about the extremely unique physicality , or lack thereof, of Harry’s sweet, albeit somewhat odd wife!? I didn’t, and so that pearl was pretty fascinating in the book. However, the majority of if seemed redundant. Amazing author with the secret muse of the tortured wife who lives her life to inspire her genius of a husband. Yet the reader finds out that the muse has talent of her own. So like Zelda Fitzgerald, at least one or two of John Steinbeck’s wives, and now London’s wife, we see that to be the wife of a famous author only breeds angst and hurt.
And can I just say the description of London’s wife and the pictures I saw didn’t really match up. She is written as an athletic beauty, but her pictures showed her as normal. Could be my own personal idea of what beauty is, though.
Interesting book as I read it, but not super memorable.