When she stumbles into the opportunity to become the assistant to 'Maud Dixon,' a celebrated-but anonymous-novelist (think: Elena Ferrante. Florence Darrow is a small-town striver who believes that she's destined to become a celebrated writer. Before long, the two of them are on a research trip to Morocco, to inspire the much-promised. Alexandra Andrews (Goodreads Author) 3.86 Rating details 26,053 ratings 3,948 reviews. The arrangement comes with conditions - high secrecy, living in an isolated house in the countryside. This darkly comic take on contemporary publishing may well leave readers asking, “Who is Alexandra Andrews?” Agent: Jennifer Joel, ICM Partners. Fired from her first job in publishing, she jumps at the chance to be assistant to the celebrated Maud Dixon, the anonymous bestselling novelist. And with that the game truly is afoot as Florence scrambles to figure out the nature of what will prove to be Helen’s fiendish master plot, barreling full-speed towards a breathtaking series of Highsmith-style twists and a stunning conclusion. Especially after Florence wakes up in the hospital following a car crash to find no trace of Helen, but instead a gendarme insistent that she is in fact Helen, an understandable error given the name on the car rental paperwork as well as Helen’s soggy ID.

But when the pair embark on a research trip to Morocco, things become considerably more complicated.

Initially, all goes swimmingly as Florence’s charismatic new boss-real name Helen Wilcox, and at 32 only a few years her senior-seems keen on mentoring Florence. Then fate intervenes-an offer to become the live-in writing assistant to a literary supernova who uses the pseudonym Maud Dixon. When aspiring novelist Florence Darrow, the protagonist of Andrews’s devilishly plotted debut, gets fired from her dogsbody job at a Manhattan publishing house, she faces the prospect that she might not be destined for greatness after all.

Who is maud dixon by alexandra andrews