What a wonderful book!From beginning to end the author captivates us with a story of love, loss and redemption.Told in dual timelines I was totally immersed in all of the characters as well as the wonderfully descriptive scenery of Alaska.This novel tells the story of Hollywood legend Scarlett Fontaine's year secretly spent in Alaska when one of the most severe earthquakes in history occurred. The second timeline involves her descendant Gwen who uncovers information regarding Scarlett's secret y...

Julianne MacLean has become one of my automatic reads! I’ve loved every book by her and this one was no different. Gwen runs the museum for her family about their famous actress/singer Scarlett and thought she knew everything about Scarlet. But a tabloid photographer, Peter comes to Gwen doing research for a book he is writing on Scarlett’s life and has discovered a photo of her from Valdez Alaska when an earthquake happened there. Story is told from alternating time lines of the present and Val...

This was quite a story, but it missed the mark for me. The plot is set in Alask and Nova Scotia and is told from two different perspectives. The story centers around a museum dedicated to a Hollywood start and the curator who discovers what happened in the missing year in the actress' life.The writing is very expressive, and the descriptive narrative is absolutely breathtaking! In spite of that, I couldn't really connect with any of the characters. The plot lacked character development, so the e...

Set against the backdrop of the largest earthquake ever to hit North America, A Storm of Infinite Beauty carries the reader from Nova Scotia to the wilds of Alaska as the curator of a museum dedicated to an iconic Hollywood star discovers what happened during a missing year in the actress’s life—and heals her own emotional wounds in the process.

Immersive, emotional, and vivid!A Storm of Infinite Beauty is set in Valdez, Alaska and Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in both 1964 and 2017, and is told from two different perspectives; Gwen, a young woman who spends her days running a museum dedicated to Scarlett Fontaine until a biographer shares some intriguing information that sees her travelling to Alaska to unravel the secrets surrounding one year of her late, legendary family member’s life, and Valerie/Scarlet, a young girl whose life is change...

Hollywood icon, Scarlett, dies in Switzerland at a young age, leaving no children. Gwen, cousin and resident expert in charge of running a museum in Scarlett’s family home in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Enter Peter, paparazzi turned biographer, who believes he’s found a secret in Scarlett’s past. Together they work in trying to find out if this secret is true. Thru this process, Gwen heal from her own tragedy and heartbreak, and she’ll learn more than she ever felt possible. Maclean takes us to the ...

Scarlette Fontaine was an iconic movie star and songwriter in the 1960s. Her fifteen-year career (which included four Oscars) ended when she moved to Switzerland, and her early death in 1979 has only added to her legend. Gwen Hollingsworth, a distant relative of Scarlette is the heir of the Fontaine fortune and keeps Scarlette's memory alive as the manager of the Scarlette Fontaine museum in Scarlette's childhood home in Nova Scotia. Photojournalist (well, paparazzi, actually) Peter Miller visit...

This was quite a story, set partly in Alaska, Nova Scotia and Hollywood. There were a few mysteries to unravel, lost or withheld letters, broken hearts, earthquakes, rises to stardom ... just a heck of a lot going on, as I said. The GR blurb reveals that the curator of a museum, dedicated to the town's local Hollywood celebrity, and a writer from Hollywood go on a quest to uncover the truth of what really happened to Valerie McCarthy (aka the legendary Scarlett Fontaine.)I can't go into too much...

Waffling between 2 and 3 starsFor the most part I thought A Storm of Infinite Beauty was underwhelming. A tragic prologue began the narrative, but before I could wrap my mind around what happened in Valdez, Alaska in 1963, the plot moved to Nova Scotia in 2017. Two women, related by blood but separated by time, suffered from grief. When I read a story with dual timelines I think it’s important to have a smooth transition between the past and the present. Instead, I favored the people from long a...