![]() ![]() ![]() For most readers, these details won’t matter, but for those looking for an accurate behind-the-scenes look at the making of a soap opera, that’s not what this book provides. ![]() Elle’s title is producer, but she spends most of her time writing, and is even cajoled into acting at one point. However, this book is not a novel version of the movies Tootsie, Soap Dish or Nurse Betty – it does not provide a realistic (albeit funny) look behind the scenes at the making of a daytime soap opera. Protagonist Elle Miller is a producer for cable soap I’d Rather Be Loved (IRBL), based in San Diego rather than Los Angeles. So I was very excited to read Dee DeTarsio’s novel, All My Restless Life to Live. And although I recently quit watching General Hospital for the fourth time in my life, I still hold the daytime drama genre very close to my heart. When I was in high school in the 1980s, there were 12 soaps on the air and somehow I managed to follow the stories and characters in each one. Everyone who knows me – and even some people who don’t – know that I am a huge soap opera fan. ![]()
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