A Golden Life

A Novel

By: Ginny Kubitz Moyer

Narrated by: Shana Pennington-Baird

Embark on a journey to 1930s California in Ginny Kubitz Moyer's spellbinding historical novel in which a woman must choose between friendship and her own secrets.

It's 1938, and twenty-five-year-old secretary Frances Healey is ready for a fresh start. Hoping to forget her painful past, she takes a job working for Hollywood producer Lawrence Merrill. She quickly becomes absorbed in VistaGlen Studios's biggest project: a movie about Kitty Ridley, the legendary stage actress who disappeared from the public eye in 1895. The movie will be the making of Belinda Vail, a beautiful ingenue who is hungry for a breakout role—and also happens to be Mr. Merrill's love interest.

But the real Miss Ridley has other ideas. Now ninety years old, she writes a scathing letter insisting the studio halt production of the film. Hoping to change her mind, Frances and Mr. Merrill embark on a trip to find the actress—only to land in a Victorian farmhouse in the Napa Valley. But as she learns the truth of Miss Ridley's life, Frances finds herself confronting the very past she's been trying to forget. And with the arrival of the ambitious Belinda, loyalties will be tested, bonds will be forged, and Frances will learn where true happiness lies.

©2024 Ginny Kubitz Moyer (P)2025 Tantor Media

Outstanding 1930s historical fiction!!

This is my first listen of a book by author Ginny Kubitz Moyer AND by narrator Shana Pennington Baird. I loved the work of both and will be looking for their other titles. The characters and plot were written with enough depth and time period believability so that the reader becomes fully invested. The multiple voices added perfectly to that storyline bringing it to life. Thank you, Ladies.