All That Happened Here (English Edition)

1947. To those blighted souls who had come through war - in mud or in pure imagination, Hollywood was a second chance to believe. After the bomb, we needed no confirmation of our shared mortality. What we needed was a shot in the arm, a drug that told us it could all be made over. The cutting room was where we remade our country, taking out those bits that made us gag, splicing the acceptable to the acceptable, mending memory so that vision could be re-made, pure and thin. And for those who walked into that valley of ambition with greed for fame in their bellies, that was a welcome thing. To the young and eager Henry Dean, it was more. It was the place where ideas were turned into entities, where the ephemeral moment might just make it over the wall and become a part of history. If he was lucky, it might just drag him along. He had not planned on Miriam Cabot, a movie star with an easy heart and a past she would rather forget. Against the backdrop of the Hollywood Blacklist, theirs is a story of love subverted.