The girl who was going to die
By: Glyn Maxwell
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780224081726
Subjects: Mortality; Fiction; Reality television programs; Fame; Mass media; Influence
Description: Britain is reeling from reports of a terrorist bomb on a film set that has killed a hundred people and, possibly, the brightest star in Hollywood, Thomas Bayne. Caught up in the middle of the national mourning is Susan Mantle - a rather hopeless tour-guide - who is seen crying on a park bench and is taken up by the media as a symbol of the blitz spirit. She is crying, though, for other reasons: she's just been told by a clairvoyant that she is about to die. Susan is swept into a media maelstrom, becoming the baffled and increasingly unwilling star of reality TV.