
Chicago 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love & happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway & is captivated by his energy intensity & burning ambition to write. After a whirlwind courtship & wedding the pair set sail for France. But glamorous Jazz Age Paris full of artists & writers fuelled by alcohol & gossip is no place for family life & fidelity. Ernest & Hadleys marriage begins to founder & the birth of a beloved son serves only to drive them further apart. Then at last Ernests ferocious literary endeavours begin to bring him recognition
- not least from a woman intent on making him her own.. .