Losing the Plot

Losing the Plot

Author: Mia Page Listening Length: 8h 1m

Can she write her own love story? Jess is an Instafamous book blogger whose career is going from strength to strength, but she secretly harbours dreams of becoming a full-time novelist Once a literary darling , former bestselling author Alex hasn’t written a hit in years. With his final contracted book deadline loomin...

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Alex

Sipping his flat white in the coffee shop while he waits for Jess, Alex ponders the progress they have made together.

The book is gradually taking shape, like a misshapen lump of clay being remoulded into something that’s both beautiful and useful.

Alex feels connected to his characters in ways he hasn’t for a while – not since his first novel, when they had seemed to come alive and talk to him in ways that he knows make no sense to people who don’t write, who haven’t experienced this phenomenon first-hand.