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From Goodreads:
Florence Darrow is a small-town striver who believes that she’s destined to become a celebrated writer. When she stumbles into the opportunity to become the assistant to “Maud Dixon,” a celebrated-but anonymous-novelist (think: Elena Ferrante), she believes that the universe is finally providing her big chance. The arrangement feels idyllic; Helen can be prickly, but she is full of pointed wisdom on both writing and living. She even invites Florence along on a research trip to Morocco, where her new novel is set. Florence has never been out of the country before; maybe, she imagines, she’ll finally have something exciting to write about herself.
But when Florence wakes up in the hospital after a terrible car crash, and Helen is dead, she begins to imagine what it might be like to “upgrade” into not only Helen’s life, but also that of Helen’s bestselling pseudonym, Maud Dixon…
Rapid Rating: High.
Profanity includes 35 uses of strong language, about a dozen instances of moderate profanity, a couple of uses of mild language, and 35 instances of the name of Deity in vain. References to sex. Death and disposing of a body.
