Meet The Newmans by Jennifer Niven [Paperback]

Set in Los Angeles in 1964, this historical novel follows the Newman family, America’s beloved television dynasty whose carefully constructed image of perfection begins to collapse as the social changes of the 1960s expose their private struggles. When patriarch Del is involved in a mysterious car accident, his wife Dinah hires outspoken young reporter Juliet Dunne to help create the family’s final television episode. Through family secrets, troubled relationships, changing gender expectations and the clash between old-fashioned ideals and a new America, the novel explores fame, feminism, marriage, identity and the price of maintaining a perfect public image.