Title: Straight up
Description: "Verity Drummond is a florist by trade and a fantasist by nature. When her husband leaves her, she deals with the pain by writing Straight Up, a novel in which a man on a mountaineering expedition (bearing a striking resemblance to her former husband) dies all alone in a hole in the ice, starving, wretched and with his broken bones poking through his skin. Verity goes to LA to meet Jasmine and Patrice who want to adapt Straight Up for the screen and somehow, between the dead man up the mountain and Verity's inability to admit that she's just another divorcee like the rest of California, she becomes The Widow and the buzz around the script, now based on a true story, begins to grow and the lies to snowball ..."--Publisher description.
Subjects: Divorced women, Women authors, Deception, Fiction, Authors, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Divorced people, fiction