The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Harry doesn’t want to retire and move to Spain. A few weeks later, he suggests that they move to LA and Celia marries a new man Harry has met. Evelyn is done with acting—she’s finally accomplished everything she set out to do and just wants to be with family.

Later, Evelyn asks her driver to stop by Harry’s place on her to the airport. As they near his house, Evelyn sees a car wrapped around a tree. Harry is slumped over the steering wheel, a strange man limp in the passenger seat. They pull Harry out and Evelyn holds him close to her, begging him to stay alive. Suddenly, she realizes that he wasn’t driving his car and has an idea; they pull the other man into the driver’s seat and take Harry to the hospital. Evelyn fears that Harry was driving drunk and worries he’ll go to jail if he survives. She buys the driver’s discretion by agreeing to kickstart his acting career and sends him home. Evelyn lays in the hospital bed with Harry until he dies, devastated. Once in her hotel room, she howls with grief for the “only man [she’d] ever loved with any lasting meaning” (331).