Hemingway's Girl

Robuck puts the fictional 19-year-old Mariella Bennet into the life of Ernest Hemingway in this novel set in Depression-era Key West. Mariell struggles to support her family after her father's death and to raise money, she bets on a boxing match and attracts the interest of two men: Hemingway and Gavin Murray, one of the WWI veterans who are labouring to build the Overseas Highway. Mariella befriends the famous writer and is hired as a housemaid for Hemingway and his second wife, Pauline. As she struggles to balance her fascination with the Hemingways' glamourous life and the prospect of settling down with Gavin, an enormous hurricane careens toward the Keys and as the rains fall down and tensions rise, Mariella must choose which way to run.