In Linda Nevin's novel Commonwealth Avenue, Zoe Hillyard is an underappreciated forty-year-old film production designer who returns to her native Boston to work on a film set. Zoe encounters old secrets, family rivalries, and the diary of her great grandmother from 1902, which was written when she turned forty herself.

Linda Nevins has taught English literature at the University of Michigan and worked in the film industry in New Mexico and Los Angeles. She now lives in Boston. She is the author of Commonwealth Avenue and Renaissance Moon.