Dream Girl
Book Feature - Dream Girl by Laura Lippman
HBL Note: I first featured Laura Lippman with the release of Lady in the Lake in 2019, which became a New York Times bestseller and will soon be a series on Apple TV. DREAM GIRL is a twisty, darkly comic new novel that Laura’s publicist described as “your summer dream read!” If you’ve ever thought being a novelist sounded like a romantic career, you might think again after reading DREAM GIRL, in which a novelist receives mysterious phone calls from someone claiming to be the “real” Audrey, a fictional character in his novel. Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - Dream Girl by Laura Lippman
From the publisher:
Gerry Andersen lies in a hospital bed in his glamorous but sterile Baltimore apartment, isolated from the busy world he can see through his windows, utterly dependent on two women he barely knows: his young assistant and a night nurse whose competency he questions.
But Gerry is also beginning to question his own competency. As he moves in and out of dreamlike memories and seemingly random appearances of a persistent ex-girlfriend at his bedside, he fears he may be losing his grip on reality, much like his mother who recently passed away from dementia.
Most distressing, he believes he’s being plagued by strange telephone calls, in which a woman claiming to be the titular character of his hit novel Dream Girl swears she will be coming to see him soon. The character is completely fictitious, but no one has ever believed Gerry when he makes that claim. Is he the victim of a cruel prank—or is he losing his mind? There is no record of the calls according to the log on his phone. Could there be someone he has wronged? Is someone coming to do him harm as he lies helplessly in bed?
Then comes the morning he wakes up next to a dead body—and realizes his nightmare is just beginning...
