Description

They say that every story has three versions - yours, mine and the truth. The question is who has the advantage when two writers compete for the story of their lives.

Alice Scott is an incorrigible optimist who still dreams of her big break as a writer. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize winner in biography and a storm cloud in character. Quite unintentionally and completely unwillingly, the two end up on Little Crescent Island with the same goal: to write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years - the heiress to one of the most famous (and most infamous) families of the 20th century and (until recently) an absolute darling of the media - the Margaret Ives.

When Margaret offers the two of them a one-month trial period, after which they get to choose who tells the story, Alice knows there are few advantages, but that's not the only trouble. The problem is that Margaret shares with Alice and Hayden separate parts of her life that they're not allowed to discuss with each other, and that every time they find themselves in the same room, a ridiculously inappropriate longing begins to pulse between the two.

Apparently their own story - just like the one Margaret weaves before their eyes - could turn out to be a mystery, a tragedy, or a ballad of love. Depends on who's telling it.

„This great, vast, wonderful life“ is a story of predestination and choice, of inherited paths and personal journeys, of the power of love and the beauty of optimism. A book that will make you smile and bring back your faith in this great, vast and wonderful life!