Yellow Notebook Summary

The information written in the yellow notebook appears to be the manuscript for a novel. It begins with Julia asking Ella is she plans to attend a party. Ella is busy trying to get her son, Michael, to sleep. Ella and Michael live with Julia in Julia's flat. Ella tells Julia she is not planning on going to the party. Julia is an actress while Ella writes for a women's magazine. Recently she has been writing responses to letters written to her magazine's medical column. The doctor who writes the column is giving the party to which Ella is invited. Julia nags Ella about the party and Ella finally relents and goes. Her divorce from her first husband was final last week, and she hopes to meet another man.

Ella disapproves of Dr. West's way of handling the letters. She pulls...