Fiction by Jodi Picoult
Melina Green is a modern playwright; her sixteenth-century ancestor Emilia Bassano was England's first published female poet. This story is about both of them, and about women writers in general getting less respect than male ones.
I started this as an audiobook and ended up stopping midway through because I just couldn't bear to listen anymore. One of the narrators had an irritating voice, and the book was struggling through one of my least favorite plot devices: "I-Can't-Tell-The-Truth-Or-The-Story-Will-End-Here Syndrome."** But I did want to know what happened, so I got the hardcover book from the library.
I have read a lot of books by this author and I usually love them, but this was not one of her best. Still, it was okay.
I also read by this author: Mad Honey
(Most recently occurred in Worth Fighting For by Jesse Q. Squanto)
This shows up in romances quite a bit, in which a main character withholds some vital piece of information from his/her love interest (or other people) for flimsy reasons, making it obvious that the author is using the device to further complicate the plot and lengthen the story.
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