Great Big Beautiful Life is a contemporary romance novel that blends mystery, family drama, and metafictional storytelling. Told primarily through Alice Scott’s first-person narration, the novel follows a young journalist competing alongside a big-shot writer named Hayden Anderson to write the biography of the reclusive, former star Margaret Ives. As Alice investigates Margaret’s past, the story moves between professional ambition and emotional truth, exposing how love, memory, and storytelling intertwine. Through shifting revelations and layered voices, the novel explores themes of truth and deception, inheritance and legacy, female agency, and the redemptive power of love and creative expression.
