There’s a good reason why Redbook has called Taylor Jenkins Reid a “genius when it comes to stories about life and love”—her four previous novels have offered unique and infectious looks at relationships while garnering raves from People,Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Buzzfeed.

Jenkins Reid’s new novel “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,” however, may be her masterpiece. Boasting a scope that’s been unprecedented in her previous work, “Evelyn” is a fast-paced but complex tapestry of the sublimity and secrets of Hollywood’s golden age—a masterfully woven exploration of the cost of fame, the divide between our public and private selves, and what it means to love, to desire and to be a woman.