title: A Fine Romance
author:  Candice Bergen 
description: "Candice Bergen shows how to do a memoir right. . . . The self-possessed, witty, and down-to-earth voice that made Bergen's first memoir a hit when it was published in 1984 has only been deepened by life's surprises. . . . As a fictional newswoman, Murphy Brown was iconically brassy. As a memoirist, Candice Bergen is flesh-and-blood classy." (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>)<br /><br />Bergen is . . . daring in her smart, self-mocking memoir <i>A Fine Romance</i>. . . . Shes awfully good company. (<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>)<br /><br />Bergen may not have had Murphys sharp elbows or unswerving career focus, but she reveals herself to be just as complicated and sophisticated as her television counterpartand infinitely more introspective. . . . [<i>A Fine Romance</i>] succeeds in the way a good memoir should. It presents a human life in fullwith great glories and heartaches and watercolored memories. Bergen tells her story with humor, confidence and candor. Perhaps shes not so different from Murphy after all." (<i>The Washington Post</i>)<br /><br /><i>A Fine Romance</i> is just that. Candice tells her own story with honesty and humora story of loves lost and found, of marriages, joys and heartaches. I am not sure Candice ever realized her own beauty or how well she writes. Well, she is, and she does. (Barbara Walters)<br /><br />Candice Bergen's memoir is moving with the wisdom that only age can bring. The woman you thought had everything has been through more than most of us could bear. Revelatory, anguished, and utterly inspirational. (Bette Midler, author of A View from a Broad)<br /><br />"You'll fall for Bergen's <i>A Fine Romance</i>. . . . Her writing and storytelling are superb throughout. . . . With this memoir, we're all likely to be wishing Bergen herselffunny, insightful, self-deprecating, flawed (and not especially concerned about that), and slugging her way through her older years with bemused determinationwas living next door. (<i>USA Today</i>)<br /><br />Candices book is candid, honest, interesting, and reading it, you love her more than ever. (Diane von Furstenberg, author of The Woman I Wanted to Be)<br /><br />Bergen is a talented and graceful writersomething she first demonstrated in <i>Knock Wood</i>, which chronicled her Hollywood youth and coming of age as the daughter of famed comedian and ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Her literary voice is enormously engaging, capable of infusing considerable wit and poignancy. . . . She has something real to say here, and one hopes that her journey will continue for many years to comeand that eventually she'll write about that too. (<i>Chicago Tribune</i>)<br /><br />Candy's memoir is intimate and surprisingly candid. We learn, we laugh, we marvel because her voice is as honest, funny, and rapier-smart as Murphys. Add in self-reflection and self-deprecation and you have one heck of a great read. (Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes correspondent)<br /><br />Candy gives us a glimpse into the fascinating world of fame and shares with us the ordinary in the extraordinary. (Carrie Fisher, author of Postcards from the Edge and Wishful Drinking)
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  # The Earl of Bergen
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Anna St. Claire
  
  
  ## Lauren Harrison
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Anna St. Claire
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Edited by Heather King
  
  
  This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and
  incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or
  localities is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
  mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without
  written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in
  a book review.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _For those willing to see the ‘possibilities’ and take a chance on love and
  happiness ever after…_
  
  
  
  
  
  _And to those that support them._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0004.html#3Q280-0ff533cfa87644c4a153b00