# ‘Gilmore Girls‘ Star Kelly Bishop to Release First Novel

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/gilmore-girls-star-kelly-bishop-to-release-first-novel/
- Published: 2026-11-05T19:03:36+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T19:23:22+00:00
- Original publisher: The Hollywood Reporter
- Original article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/gilmore-girls-star-kelly-bishop-first-novel-1236748606/
- Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment

## Key points

- Kelly Bishop’s first novel is due in autumn 2027.
- Broad Appeal follows four women in their 70s sharing a Manhattan home.
- The story explores friendship, resilience and starting over later in life.

## Summary

Kelly Bishop, known for Gilmore Girls and Dirty Dancing, will publish her first novel, Broad Appeal, with William Morrow in autumn 2027. Co-written with bestselling author Ali Rosen, it follows four women in their 70s whose shared home leads to friendship and new beginnings, bringing older women’s lives and reinvention to the centre of a comic novel.

The story centres on Roz, a 78-year-old divorcée whose Upper West Side home is threatened by rising housing costs. She takes in her sister-in-law, a former trophy wife facing financial hardship and a dance teacher she met protesting gentrification; their practical arrangement becomes a chosen family, tested by secrets, money worries and heartbreak. Bishop’s 2024 memoir, The Third Gilmore Girl, was a bestseller.

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