Who is Kennedy Chase from the novel, Hollywood Kids?

Kennedy Chase is an educated professional woman who grew up with loving supportive parents. Not a Hollywood kid, she is nonetheless at loose ends because her husband, who had been her professional partner, died and she still mourns his loss. She never has a problem with self-esteem; her problem is deciding what to do with her life which had been set on one course and now, because of the death of her husband, seems to lack direction.