Reclusive writer Kary Ashe immediately regrets the misplaced sense of duty which compels her to appear live on national television--at exorbitant personal cost. What she cannot anticipate is an entanglement with Hollywood that destroys her carefully constructed solitary life.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte;
Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy Sayers;
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough