Book description
Sick of reality TV, scriptwriter Jane Bussmann (South Park, The Fast
Show, Brass Eye and Smack the Pony) moved to Hollywood to do something
better. But stranded outside the system, her nightmare day job was
interviewing Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Co. Jane was trapped in
the Golden Age of Stupid. Then she saw a photograph of a man in Vanity
Fair. John Prendergast's day job was ending war. He was also extremely
attractive. Jane 'may have inferred she was a Foreign Correspondent',
because suddenly she was in Washington, New York and finally equatorial
Africa on the trail of this modern-day Indiana Jones. But in cruel
twist, when Jane arrived in Uganda John had left. Alone in a war-torn
country, appalled by 25,000 child abductions, Jane knew she must
investigate the war crime of the century - to make John fancy her. With
a maverick heroine, an idealist hero, laugh-out-loud comic disasters and
moving tragedy, this is brilliant storytelling by a hugely talented
writer.
In addition to her scriptwriting, Jane Bussmann wrote an
award-winning travel column for the Mail on Sunday. Her one-woman
show, Bussmann's Holiday, which covers the events in this book, won
rave reviews, the Evening Standard describing her as 'Part Tinkerbell,
part P. J. O'Rourke' with 'a deadly way with words'. The Guardian
said, 'It's impossible to stop laughing'.
