Great Big Beautiful Life

When journalist Hayden Beaumont-Price and novelist Shepard Anastas are both invited to a private island estate to write the authorised biography of beloved cultural icon Eleanor Starling, they expect competition. What they don't expect is Eleanor herself — sharp, funny, guarded, and far more complicated than her mythologised public image suggests.

As the summer unfolds and Eleanor slowly reveals the extraordinary, painful truth of her life, Hayden and Shepard find themselves drawn into something neither planned for. A sweeping, sun-drenched story about legacy, storytelling, and what it means to live a life that is wholly your own.

From the number one internationally bestselling author of Happy Place, Book Lovers, and People We Meet on Vacation.