Sometimes, “you want to just live the way you've lived when you were in college, or your early twenties, when you freedom and you never have to think of anyone but yourself.” In Soléne, Lee gives voice to a sometimes unspeakable restlessness among women and mothers in particular: “I wish I didn't have to be this pillar of strength,' Lee said. Instead, she is the elder in a May-December relationship, with a youthful Botticelli angel ministering to her on a yacht in Anguilla. “It really broke my spirit, and I was angry about it, and so a lot of that went into this book.” A fictional artist at Soléne’s gallery wins raves for a video-installation “exploring how women of a certain age cease to be seen.” Soléne’s ex-husband remarries Hollywood tropes would have had her eating Ben and Jerry’s under the covers, in mourning. Sound familiar?Īfter two decades in Hollywood, Lee, now 46, knew what it was like to be marginalized. Hayes is uncommonly kind and dimpled, possessing a face insured by Lloyd’s of London that Soléne likens to a Botticelli angel. mom who, improbably, falls for Hayes Campbell, the 20-year-old British frontman of her teen daughter’s favorite boy band, August Moon. With How Stella Got Her Groove Back vibes and Fifty Shades of Grey quantities of (deftly-written) sex, The Idea of You, originally published in 2017, is about Soléne, a sophisticated, French-born art gallerist and 39-year-old, divorced L.A. And, somewhere along the way, on the advice of at least two friends, you pick up Robinne Lee’s The Idea of You, the three-year-old romance novel inspired-at least in part-by Styles, and lose whatever was left of your mind. You've tumbled down the YouTube and TikTok rabbitholes, bought an official “Treat People with Kindness” water bottle, downloaded the Calm app to hear his throaty voice lull you to sleep (though some people find it sensual to the point of distraction). Maybe you’ve been wooed by the technicolor orgy of the “Watermelon Sugar” video, or the resplendent Gucci dress moment. In the absence of actual travel in 2020, there is a journey on which newly-minted Harry Styles fans can still embark.

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