Product Description

'If you could recreate any movie scene and cast yourself in the lead role, which would you choose?' This chance remark made one late night over the counter of a North London video store brings together four very different characters with hilarious and dramatic consequences.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #791936 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

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'Girlie fun guaranteed to see off any World Cup fatigue.'

About the Author
Siobhan Curham is thirty-three years old and lives in North West London. After a successful career in the film industry (she was promoted to assistant manager of her local video shop after just two months) she turned her attentions to writing. The Scene Stealers is Siobhan's third novel, she also writes a weekly column for the Express and Star newspaper and is currently working on her first screenplay.

Customer Reviews

Reel to Real Fun
Hilarious, clever and original story.

The characters a are likable, down-to-earth bunch who decide to recreate their favourite movie scenes, in their own lives, with them in the starring roles. It's the kind of stuff most of us wish we could do, but would never dare in real life. Top class escapism.

Cheered me up no end and brought a warm glow to a chilly weekend.

Good book
This is without doubt the best book I've ever read. Fact. Buy it now.

Having fun and finding a life
A heart-waming, witty and engaging tale in which four characters discover each other and stumble upon reasons for living. The plot of this story, set amidst the fortunes and misfortunes of a video shop on a very ordinary and decaying urban shopping parade, allows the author to strike a spark which grows determinedly into life. The progress of the story for me was like a television picture changing from black and white to colour.
This for me is the story's great strength. The setting and the characters are well known to us; even if they are not what we encounter outside the front door, they surround us in tv soaps and the tabloids. The surprise, the delight of this book springs from the journey away from boring predictability to an enthusiasm for life.