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Who Is Maud Dixon?

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Who Is Maud Dixon?

March 2021

WHO IS MAUD DIXON? by Alexandra Andrews is such a fun read! Florence Darrow is an editorial assistant at a New York publishing house. She is still learning the business and is angling how to hit the next rung on the career ladder. She stumbles a step when she has a one-night stand with an oh-so-married senior executive. And just like that, she is unceremoniously let go from the publishing house.

But then she latches onto the perfect job as the assistant to Maud Dixon, whose novel Mississippi Foxtrot was an overnight sensation. Maud’s name is a pseudonym known only to her agent, though many are dying to know who she is; it is a topic of much gossip. Is Maud a man or a woman?

Florence signs non-disclosure agreements not to reveal Maud’s true identity and is introduced to Helen Wilcox, aka Maud, who is not much older than Florence. Helen is hibernating in a pretty little town in upstate New York, well out of the usual literary scene.

She also is in the weeds on her much-anticipated second novel --- the one "the world is waiting for.” For "inspiration," the two of them head to Morocco, and from there lots of trouble ensues with mixed-up identities and murder.

This brisk read is an entertaining look inside the world of publishing, as well as a taut and twisty whodunit. Book clubs will enjoy it!

Who Is Maud Dixon?
by Alexandra Andrews