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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Typewriter Beach by Meg Waite Clayton

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Also by Meg Waite Clayton:

Typewriter Beach, July 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Postmistress of Paris, December 2021
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The Last Train to London, September 2019
Paperback / e-Book
The Last Train to London, September 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Beautiful Exiles, February 2019
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Beautiful Exiles, August 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Wednesday Daughters B00BABT9V4 R, July 2014
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The Wednesday Daughters, July 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Four Ms. Bradwells, December 2011
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Wednesday Sisters, June 2008
Hardcover

TYPEWRITER BEACH
By: Meg Waite Clayton

Harper
July 2025
On Sale: July 1, 2025
320 pages
ISBN: 006342214X
EAN: 9780063422148
Kindle: B0DJBPPW4C
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical

Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, Typewriter Beach is an unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock's new star. 

1957. Isabella Giori is ten months into a standard seven-year studio contract when she auditions with Hitchcock. Just weeks later, she is sequestered by the studio’s “fixer” in a tiny Carmel cottage, waiting and dreading. 

Meanwhile, next door, Léon Chazan is annoyed as hell when Iz interrupts his work on yet another screenplay he won’t be able to sell, because he’s been blacklisted. Soon, they’re together in his roadster, speeding down the fog-shrouded Big Sur coast. 

2018. Twenty-six-year-old screenwriter Gemma Chazan, in Carmel to sell her grandfather’s cottage, finds a hidden safe full of secrets—raising questions about who the screenwriter known simply as Chazan really was, and whether she can live up to his name. 

In graceful prose and with an intimate understanding of human nature, Meg Waite Clayton captures the joys and frustrations of being a writer, being a woman, being a star, and being in love. Typewriter Beach is the story of two women separated by generations—a tale of ideas and ideals, passion and persistence, creativity, politics, and family.