Thanks to NetGalley, Ballantine Books and Paula McLain for the opportunity to read her latest novel.
This is the fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway and his third wife, Martha Gellhorn. The two meet while Ernest is still married to his second wife and has three boys. Their affair begins when they are both covering the Spanish Civil War in 1937. Ahead of her time, Martha is definitely a woman in a man's world and craves her independence.
Wartime is where their relationship seems to be at its best - they are both writing, passionate, and away from reality. Ernest is an alcoholic and a philanderer and for all of Martha's independence, she still craves a man by her side. I just never got into this book too much and found myself just wanting to reach the end.
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