Beautiful Exiles

To begin with this book required a lot of research. I did some research myself and found this book to be very accurate. You really get the feel for what's it like to be a war correspondent. You also get a peek into the mind and life of Earnest Hemingway and his third wife. A very enjoyable book!

An interesting look into the life of war correspondents as told by Hemingway’s third major love, Gellhorn. Fiction that reads like fact, this well researched book should appeal to biography fans, international news correspondents, and anyone who likes a good realistic love story.

Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway's third wife, works hard in her relationship with Hemingway to make a career for herself as a writer and a war correspondent. She traveled to Spain and to Europe for World War II to report on conflicts there. This book covers Gellhorn's life with Hemingway and her struggles to have a writing career and a life with Hemingway. I enjoyed the description of the details of their personalities, relationship and what happened between them.

Author writes very well and the dialog/characters thoughts are very realistic...
It is written from GellHorn's point of view...
I rarely finish a biography, but I did this time...
Adds a lot to the "pictures" of Gellhorn and Hemingway in Spain and Cuba and even China
I strongly recommend this book!

Meg Waite Clayton writes a story of Martha Gillhorns infactuation with Earnest Hemingway as an author and their love story, leading to their marital ups and downs. She allows us to see Hemingway’s insecurities and Gillhorns compassion for writing from the frontlines when it was forbidden for a woman to do so. Good read.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book about Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway. I, too, and not a Hemingway fan; he was an egotistical, immature jerk. But Martha...this tale takes you on her journey, a woman ahead of her time, and one hell of a journalist. Highly recommend.

Foul language, lewd lifestyle, and sad story was not enjoyable reading for me. It may appeal to some interested in the life of Earnest Hemingway. This is an excellent representation of the challenges caused by debauched lifestyle choices and their consequences.

This was a very good book. Interesting, informative and well-written book The insight to Ernest Hemingway, the coverage of the war and his insecurities and personal life kept me turning the pages. I know I will read this again sometime in the future.

A compelling insight into the life and times of two authors, each famous in their own right. Beautiful Exiles is historical fiction but has more than enough factual material to make the fictional material believable. It is one of those books that once started one cannot bear to put in down for later. Meg Waite Clayton is deservedly a New York Times bestselling author!

This book was a history lesson that with insight into the people who experienced it firsthand. Since I wasn’t born until 1944 I know nothing about WW II except what I read. This has helped me see it through the eyes of others who lived it. This is a very good book!

No spoilers...I knew from the beginning that is was going to be a slower read cause it just didn’t have anything that peaked my interest. Like many other review it’s a love story about their nicknames. I had a goal to read a certain amount of books so I didn’t want to give up but halfway through I was just hoping for an exciting ending which never really came. I didn’t know much about either of their lives or their writing before and don’t care to know more after.

Well written. Good flow. Lifts the veil on the craft of writing. Illuminates a history I would have missed and introduces me to a character I would like to know. Opens up new writers for my consideration.

Once started this book was difficult to put down. Extremely well written novel in the first person about Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway’s third wife, a literary pioneer and adventurer in her own right. Highly recommend.

I have enjoyed reading some of Ernest He's books, but was unaware of Gellhorn. I felt this author brought their stories and live's to life. Truly enjoyed the entire book and the exquisite descriptiveness.

This book focuses on an interesting female journalist's relationship with Ernest Hemingway. I don't know if it was the nature of the relationship, or the way it was described, that bothered me so much. There was a great deal of travel and up close experience of war that appeared to drive both their writing careers and their romance, but the center was missing.

Wonderful insight into the legend of Hemingway and his daily life and struggles that defined him and his relationships Great insight into Gellhorns marriage with Hemingway and her literary accomplishments overshadowed by his legend and ego

I typically read about a book every two weeks and this one took me twice as long to get through. It was well-written but it got boring and didn’t seem to really follow a story line in the second half. Just didn’t do it for me.

This book spans a complicated, hard time of modern civilization through the eyes of a complicated woman. A tragic story of two people who destroyed themselves as surely as the warring countries they survived in.

Hemingway and Gellhorn’s romance during World War ll demonstrates two career professional writers are unable to keep their egos in check or balance their careers in order to manage their relationship.

An interesting mix of truth and fiction. I really enjoyed the whole experience. Only reason I gave it a four is I question the bias of the author in some situations that portray personalities in unflattering ways. Truth or fiction!?

I found this book interesting but not easy to read. I stayed with it because the story of Martha Gellhorn is an amazing one. But I found Ernest Hemingway to be so unlikable that the book was often unpleasant to read.

I LOVED this book. It is well-researched and reads almost like nonfiction as it is very historically accurate. The author authentically captures the ups and downs of a writer's life and I found it both inspiring and reassuring at times. If you're a Hemingway, Gelhorn or World War II fan, you'll enjoy this entertaining novel.

Hemingway and Gellhorn’s romance during World War ll demonstrates two career professional writers are unable to keep their egos in check or balance their careers in order to manage their relationship.

An interesting mix of truth and fiction. I really enjoyed the whole experience. Only reason I gave it a four is I question the bias of the author in some situations that portray personalities in unflattering ways. Truth or fiction!?

If you're curious about Hemingway's adult life, it is filled with interesting and fun details. He was an a famous author, but an imperfect husband to several women. Since it's written from the perspective of one of his wives, it must one wonder.

I found this book interesting but not easy to read. I stayed with it because the story of Martha Gellhorn is an amazing one. But I found Ernest Hemingway to be so unlikable that the book was often unpleasant to read.