The Paris Wife 
By Paula McLain
Genre: Adult Historical Fiction
Personal Rating: 6/10

This book is a historical fiction based of the true events of Hadley Richardson's life--the first wife of Ernest Hemingway. This book follows the couples first meeting in 1920, their short courtship, and married life in Paris--where Hemingway's writing career started taking off. Though madly in love, the couple struggles living in the Jazz Age where morals where loose, and where traditional family values were considered inconvenient. Soon, everything Hadley believed about her own marriage is tested, as Ernest struggles to to find the voice that will give him a place in history.

Everything about Hemingway's life was tragic in it's own sense, and made that way through his own bad decisions. Though that misery inspired some of the worlds most beloved novels, it destroyed him and those he loved. I adored having the opportunity to see these events unfurl though Hadley's eyes--the eyes of someone who loved him unconditionally from the start. I also loved seeing the development of Hemingway's writing career. While reading this book I got to see a little of the thought process behind two of my favorite Hemingway novels: The Sun also Rises and A Farewell to Arms. All the characters from The Sun Also Rises where taken directly from Hemingway's life in Paris. They were people he actually met and drank with, people who amazed and appalled him all at once. Also,  A Farewell to Arms is about a wounded solider who falls for his nurse, and Hemingway actually was wounded in WWI and actually did fall in love with his nurse. A few other famous authors made an appearance in this book as well--such as F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I would recommend this book to any Hemingway fans. It makes you love him a lot, it makes you hate him a lot. I loved being in his wife's head, and seeing how she would have handled being married to a man like him, what it was like being a wife as well as a muse. I real worth while read.