In the Matter of Isabel - Softcover

Paul A. Mendelson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911320874 ISBN 13: 9781911320876

Publisher: Book Guild Publishing Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

Rick, a wannabe corporate whiz-kid from Hackney, is transfixed when the exotic Isabel Velazco walks into his Edgware Road law office. She desperately needs his help to get her son Sebastian back. Three years ago, following a divorce from Sebastian's father, Isabel took her son back to Argentina with his dad's consent. But when Sebastian visited his dad for Christmas, he never returned. Now, five long months later, she has raised the money to try and get him back. Cocky Rick believes he holds all the cards as he takes on Isabel s case. But who exactly is playing whom? Is the helpless Isabel all that she seems?

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Review:

Paul A. Mendelson manages to write a comic novel that effortlessly mixes broad farce and beautifully drawn cameos with twists, tension and a touching love story. A wonderfully funny debut novel from an accomplished TV scriptwriter. --David Lister - The Independent

Wow. What a terrific first novel - a rom-com that builds to an intensely dramatic climax and a courtroom drama full of laughs. Very moving. I loved it. --Paul Mayhew-Archer - Emmy winning screenwriter (Vicar of Dibley, Mrs. Brown's Boys, Esio Trot)

Paul A. Mendelson's highly enjoyable tale fizzes with a series of surprises that beautifully capture the bewilderment of being young and out of your depth. --Andy Hamilton

About the Author:

Paul A. Mendelson is a British writer known for his work on television and radio. His comedy series include the long-running, BAFTA-nominated BBC series "May to December" as well as "So Haunt Me" and "My Hero". He wrote "Losing It", a film for ITV starring Martin Clunes, which was nominated for the Televisual Best Writing Award and has been broadcast worldwide. Paul wrote the Radio 4 plays "I am I said", "Fireworks at the Villa Lucia" and "A Meeting In Seville". He has adapted the latter into a screenplay, which is currently in development. Recent radio dramas have included six adaptations of Joyce Porter's crime novels about the appalling Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover and the highly-acclaimed CS Forester dramatisations, CS Forester's "London Noir". Paul created the cult series "Neighbors From Hell", broadcast in the US. He has written two new US pilots and three movies with LA screenwriter Alan Moscowitz and is also developing comedy and drama projects elsewhere.

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Guild Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1911320874
• ISBN 13: 9781911320876
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 295