For the women who loved Hemingway, there was no “happily ever after”. While it is a love story, it is no romance novel. Love and Ruin is a novelization of Martha Gelhorn’s life from January 1936 to June 1944. Paula McLain, who combines extensive research with magical story-telling, was drawn to capturing their story. His third wife, Martha Gelhorn, was an acclaimed war correspondent and author. But Hadley was only the first of Hemingway’s four wives. The Paris Wife was her luminous, bestselling historical fiction novel based on the marriage of Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson, and Paula felt she was done writing about Hemingway. Paula McLain, Cleveland author of The Paris Wife and Circling the Sun, never expected to write this new novel. Love and Ruin by Paula McLain Knowing the ending doesn’t spoil this new novel at all. We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings
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