The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel

The Only Woman in The Room reveals the life of Hedy LaMar beyond her movie star reputation. Marie Benedict shares Hedy's childhood, relationship with her parents and her fascinating role to a wealth Austrian businessman as his wife. The story continues to her stardom and then to her scientific research. Th look seems a little slow and nor detailed at the beginning and then possibly a quick finish at the end. While the book was quick to read, it was interesting learning about her WWII and Hollywood connections along with the expectations of women by society and family/spouses at that time in history.

Very interesting historical fiction based on the real life of Hedy Lamar. I found parts of the book fascinating, and after finishing researched the actress and inventor. I didn’t like this book quite as much as I liked “Carnegie’s Maid “ but I would highly recommend this book.

I went into reading this book with a bad attitude, expecting not to like it. And to my pleasant surprise, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the pace, characters, writing style and plot (to which I was ignorant). However, the ending left me wanting greatly. It just seemed to stop. That was a big disappointment. An easy read that was enjoyable.

Based on the life of Hedy Lamar and her many roles other than on screen and her contributions to the war effort.

The subject, Hedy Lamarr, was of interest to me and I was very excited when I heard we were going to read this book. I dove right in and the book was interesting but I felt it was just a skim of her very interesting life. There could be two explanations for this, one being that the author didn’t do her homework and just did enough to get her number of words to make an interesting but not overly in-depth story or two, Hedy was such a private person that there just wasn’t any more information to be gleaned than what was found and placed in the book with as much embellishment to make it an interesting story. It is a good read but wish Ms. Lamarr had written an autobiography. (The one listed was contested by her as a ghost writer filled with lies.) I would recommend this as a quick read but not sure how factual and doesn’t delve deep enough for me.