“Come for the Old Hollywood glamour; stay for the love letter to Broadway; leave with characters so real you’ll forget they live in the pages of a book. One thing is certain—Katherine Sherbrooke sure knows how to tell a story.”
                                           —Lisa Duffy, author of My Kind of People  

“Infinitely readable, atmospheric and emotionally charged…Book club fiction at its best.”  
                                           —Brooke Lea Foster, author of On Gin Lane

“In The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly, Sherbrooke deftly weaves an intimate look at forbidden love, heartbreak, and life-changing secrets, into a journey through decades of braided worlds of fashion and entertainment from New York to California.” 
                                             —Randy Susan Meyers, Bestselling author, Waisted
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It’s 1948, and Aster Kelly leaves New York City modeling behind for Hollywood, determined to realize her dream of designing clothes. Desperate for work, she takes on a job as a stand-in model for Lauren Bacall for one of the industry’s top designers, Fernando Tivoli. The two develop a complicated friendship, as Aster becomes entangled with the head of Galaxy Studios, and Fernando has a clandestine romance with their biggest up-and-coming star, Christopher Page. When Aster faces a crisis and Fernando’s future is threatened, she makes a decision that changes the trajectory of their lives forever. Decades later, Aster’s daughter Lissy discovers Aster’s lies, and mother and daughter are forced to wrestle with difficult truths. 

Told in two timelines, sweeping from New York to Los Angeles, and from San Francisco to Martha’s Vineyard, The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly will surprise and delight readers of both contemporary and historical fiction. And at its core, it’s a joyful celebration of chosen family and of true love—a must read for book clubs, with plenty of juicy details, surprising twists and resonant issues to be discussed long after the last page is turned.
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“Richly detailed and sumptuously costumed, readers will love the behind the scenes look at the struggles and triumphs, lives and loves of entertainers on both coasts in two different eras.”  
                                              —Juliette Faye, author of City of Flickering Light

“This book is a triple threat.
                                              —Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg, Author of Daughter of a Promise