Be Frank With Me

 Fiction by Julia Clairborne Johnson

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Alice works for a literary agent at a big publishing company in New York. Her boss's most famous client is Mimi Banning, a reclusive author who, at only nineteen years old in the early 1970's, had written a novel that was considered both a bestseller AND a classic. Since that time she has not published even one more word. But now Mimi is broke and needs to write something new, and fast! So Alice is sent to California on a a glorified babysitting mission to make sure the new book happens.

There are plenty of challenges waiting for Alice, not least of which is Mimi's prickly personality. But Alice is a capable sort, and deals with everything, including Mimi's nine-year-old son, Frank, a decidedly odd but kind of endearing child. 

This was a fun little story that I enjoyed a lot.