Sally McGinley, 29, is a playwright who has watched her university friends achieve success in film and theatre while her career is diminishing. Greg Burns, 44, is an actor on the slide - television success in a vet drama six years ago is a distant memory, and his twelve-year relationship with Caroline and his ten-year-old daughter has hit hard and frustrating times. When Sally is commissioned to write a new play for top director Freddie Zamora in the West End and Greg is cast as the male lead, both of them seize the opportunity to enliven their professional lives. Greg moves to London and they begin an affair which at first seems just the kind of reckless, sexual adventure they'd craved; until, disbelievingly, Sally announces she is pregnant and they are both forced to make decisions that catapult them into a recognition of just what real life entails.
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Stephanie Merritt was born in 1974. She has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines and is currently Deputy Literary Editor of the Observer.
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A good, emminently readable novel about what happens when fantasy becomes reality,
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Greg Burns is a middle-aged, once successful TV actor. Bored by life at home with his partner and 10-yr old daughter and frustrated by the waning of his career, he falls into a fantasy relationship with a much younger playwright, Sally, attracted by her carefree and seductive lifestyle among the up-and-coming London "arty" set in which she lives. But the proverbial hits the fan when the sex, drugs and rock'n'roll world into which she allows him to wander collides with the home life that, when it comes to it, he doesn't want to lose. This book is overlong at times in its descriptions of places and people, and the self-consciously clever and witty tones employed by the writer often irritate. But nevertheless, Stephanie Merritt is able to draw two unsympathetic characters with great authenticity, leaving you to feel that you know these people, or if not, then others just like them, and their individual approaches to life stay in the mind well after the book has been put back on the shelf.
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