Candice Bergen’s latest memoir, A Fine Romance, is a many-faceted tale. The Emmy Award-winning actress best known for her role as the wisecracking TV journalist Murphy Brown has cobbled together a melange of stories, along with some loving—and some not so loving—memories, and then woven them into a narrative detailing the ups and downs of her privileged, peripatetic, and seemingly perfect life.
Her candid reflections might be labeled Chick Lit, not in any derogatory way but simply because her discussions of love, death, and marriage—and her fixation on the birth of her daughter, Chloe, when Candice was 39, an event which she calls “the beginning of my life”—will appeal to women in general and particularly to those of a certain age.
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