Book description
Writer Ivan Connor is desperate. His publisher has turned down his new
novel, his agent is out of ideas, and the only person to turn up at his
latest reading is his mum. He's deeply jealous of Francesca Brady, a
hugely successful author of fat romantic books for fat romantic people,
whose expansive hair and bright red lipstick mock him from posters
everywhere he goes. He's also living at home since his marriage broke
up, and he's just collected the wrong child from school. But one night
Connor stumbles on a route back to the top, via a beautiful model, two
deranged psychopaths, a multi-million pound publishing fraud, true love
and utter heartbreak... Bateman was a journalist in Northern Ireland
before becoming a full-time writer. His first novel, DIVORCING JACK, won
the Betty Trask Prize, and all his novels have been critically
acclaimed. He wrote the screenplays for the feature films DIVORCING JACK
and WILD ABOUT HARRY and the popular TV series MURPHY'S LAW starring
James Nesbitt. Bateman lives in Ireland with his family.
