Young Florence Darrow comes to New York with stars and dreams in her eyes of becoming a widely successful writer. But first she has to serve her time, ending up as an assistant for some ghastly editor in a publishing company, one of many assistants to many editors. After going about things the wrong way - she is a bit of a square in a round hole - she ends up losing her job. But hope springs eternal, and in a marvellously serendipitous stroke of luck, she finds herself the assistant for the reclusive and secretive world famous author Maud Dixon. Maud has only written one novel which was an instant best seller, she never gives interviews, in fact no one has ever met her. No one knows if she is even male or female. Florence cannot believe her luck.
Maud is a woman by the way, she leads a solitary slightly eccentric existence in a small town in New York State. Florence is in awe, and slowly a working relationship works itself out between the two women. Maud is writing her second novel set in Morocco. For research purposes Florence and Mad travel to Morocco. And this is where the real action begins! After a night out with Maud, Florence wakes up in hospital apparently having been in a car accident. Maud has disappeared, as has Florence's purse and passport. In a plot straight out of The Talented Mr Ripley, Florence has some big decisions to make. How is this facade going to pan out? Can she reinvent herself? And where is Maud's body?
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