If you’re wondering what to buy for the readers in your life for Christmas, can I suggest a gloriously-funny, poignant, heartfelt, beautifully-written novel about the hopes and dreams, ambitions and desires of an unknown screenwriter who gets a call from an Oscar-winning director and dares to believe that, this time, one of his screenplays will become a film. The opening pages made me laugh uncontrollably, even though I knew what was coming.
I must declare an interest: the writer is my other half, so I’ve already read a couple of drafts. But even on the third reading I was completely delightfully absorbed.
Now A Major Motion Picture is also serious: about the scrapes we (wittingly or un) get ourselves into, the people who take advantage of us, the dashing of our dreams, falling hopelessly in love and the way(s) we do and don’t survive life’s assaults on our hearts and hopes.
Naturally, things don’t happen quite in the order or quite in the way our hero would wish, but the things that do happen will make you smile and laugh and cross your fingers tightly for his sake; they’ll make you hope he won’t do some things and long for him to do other things and all the while you will – if you’re anything like me – keep turning the pages as you hope against hope that his hopes will materialise.
If you click on the cover image you can buy it immediately. If you decide to wait until the official publication date, 28 November, you can buy it both there and here. And if, after you’ve read it, you felt like leaving a review in either place, that would be great. Happy Christmas book-buying.
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