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Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely?
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9780063338753
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.31 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A mesmerizing tale of glamour, secrets, and reinvention, I absolutely loved it.
--Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
In 1969, twenty-three-year-old starlet Lori Lovely shocks the world by ditching a promising film career to take vows as a Benedictine nun. The media can't get enough of the story. Why would such a beautiful girl take the veil? Did it have anything to do with her costar, heartthrob singer Lucas Wesley?
In 1990, history student Lu Tibbott decides to dig into a true twentieth-century mystery for her senior thesis and write about her aunt Lori, now the Mother Abbess at a cloistered convent in rural New England. For decades Mother Lori has refused all requests for interviews--until Lu arrives with a tape recorder in hand. To Lu's delight, Mother Lori is finally ready to talk...but only if Lu is truly ready to listen.
Lu is shocked by the story of Lori Lovely's tumultuous years in Hollywood, a fairy tale twisting with ambition, unforeseen alliances, and forbidden love. What began as a history thesis now threatens to upend all their lives with its unexpected truths, especially as the media gets wind of Lu's project and begins to ask...
Whatever happened to Lori Lovely?
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