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The Scene Stealers
If you could recreate any movie scene and cast yourself in the lead role, which would you choose?This chance remark made late one night over the counter of a North London video store brings together four very different characters with hilarious and dramatic consequences.United only by their love of film, Sadie, Lana, Liam a
368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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Siobhan Curham
41 books470 followersHi, I’m Siobhan - which for those of you not familiar with the wonder of Irish names, is actually pronounced, Shiv-on!
I’m an award-winning author of over 50 books, fiction and non-fiction, for adults, young adults and children, and my first book was published back in 2000, so I’ve been at this writing game for almost a quarter of a century now.
I’m also a former council estate kid and a university drop-out - I dropped out because I didn’t think I had what it took to make it in the middle class world of publishing. Thankfully I managed to overcome my self doubt and fear and achieve my writing dreams, and now I love helping others do the same through my mentoring, courses and talks.
I don’t know about you, but during the pandemic I felt as if my life had collapsed in on itself and I’d had to shrink myself to fit this strange new world of lockdowns and zoom calls (oh, so many Zoom calls!) and working from home and working alone. Even when things returned to some semblance of normal back in 2022, I felt that I’d lost sight of who I was and I’d definitely lost my joy for living.
Then, an unexpected trip to Jamaica changed everything, jolting me back to life and reminding me of who I truly am. In a bid to never lose sight of myself and my sense of wonder and purpose again, I started travelling more and writing a weekly Substack letter called Wonderstruck. And in September 2023 I gave up my home in the UK and pretty much all of my worldly goods to solo travel the world while I write my books and mentor other writers.
I send Wonderstruck out to my subscribers every Sunday morning, writing about the places I visit and the lessons I learn there. My sole aim for writing this letter is to inspire others to rediscover their own sense of purpose, wonder and adventure.
If you've enjoyed reading any of my books I'd love it if you joined the Wonderstruck community over on Substack.
Thanks so much for reading and reviewing my books, I really appreciate it!
Siobhan
Substack: siobhancurham.substack.com
Facebook: Siobhan Curham Author
Instagram: @SiobhanCurhamAuthor
Twitter: @SiobhanCurham
For more information about my books, mentoring and courses, please visit: http://www.siobhancurham.com
I’m an award-winning author of over 50 books, fiction and non-fiction, for adults, young adults and children, and my first book was published back in 2000, so I’ve been at this writing game for almost a quarter of a century now.
I’m also a former council estate kid and a university drop-out - I dropped out because I didn’t think I had what it took to make it in the middle class world of publishing. Thankfully I managed to overcome my self doubt and fear and achieve my writing dreams, and now I love helping others do the same through my mentoring, courses and talks.
I don’t know about you, but during the pandemic I felt as if my life had collapsed in on itself and I’d had to shrink myself to fit this strange new world of lockdowns and zoom calls (oh, so many Zoom calls!) and working from home and working alone. Even when things returned to some semblance of normal back in 2022, I felt that I’d lost sight of who I was and I’d definitely lost my joy for living.
Then, an unexpected trip to Jamaica changed everything, jolting me back to life and reminding me of who I truly am. In a bid to never lose sight of myself and my sense of wonder and purpose again, I started travelling more and writing a weekly Substack letter called Wonderstruck. And in September 2023 I gave up my home in the UK and pretty much all of my worldly goods to solo travel the world while I write my books and mentor other writers.
I send Wonderstruck out to my subscribers every Sunday morning, writing about the places I visit and the lessons I learn there. My sole aim for writing this letter is to inspire others to rediscover their own sense of purpose, wonder and adventure.
If you've enjoyed reading any of my books I'd love it if you joined the Wonderstruck community over on Substack.
Thanks so much for reading and reviewing my books, I really appreciate it!
Siobhan
Substack: siobhancurham.substack.com
Facebook: Siobhan Curham Author
Instagram: @SiobhanCurhamAuthor
Twitter: @SiobhanCurham
For more information about my books, mentoring and courses, please visit: http://www.siobhancurham.com
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June 4, 2016
The Scene Stealers was a fun enjoyable read.
After becoming addicted to Curham's brilliant series Shipwrecked I thought I'd give one of her newest novels a go! Being a lover of movies myself, this one sounded like it would be right up my street...and it was indeed.
The Scene Stealers is a very character driven story, told from lots of different perspectives. More specifically the perspectives of: Sadie, Liam, Terry and Lana.
It was filled with scenes of fun and laughs along with some lovely sweet and tender moments, shocking twists, tears and tragedy.
I enjoyed reading Sadie's character development over the course of the novel. I loved how she grows from a timid and uncertain young girl into a strong, confident and sassy young woman.
Liam Costello was without shadow of a doubt my favourite character. He was sweet and endearing, shy and kind. He also had an attitude that I really liked. He had great thoughts and opinions and some of his advice to Sadie spoke to me as much as it did to her.
What's more, I found his friendship with Terry endearing and at times hysterical. What I loved even more however was the slow development of Liam's friendship with Sadie and the way their friendship grew into something more... I loved reading the chapters from his perspective, especially where G.L Jenkins was concerned.
Now HE was a character I really despised in this book. I despised him every bit as much as Liam did. He was truly vile!! I also loathed the way he treated poor Sadie and the way Sadie LET him treat her. At times I found myself wanting to shake her every bit as much as Lana Loveday did.
Lana Loveday was a character with whom I had mixed feelings about. I could never quite make up my mind as to whether I liked her or not, for a large portion of the book. She was a very complex character but her past was very interesting to read about and her developing friendship with Sadie was sweet. In the end I couldn't help my sympathise with her and found myself tearing up towards the end.
Her amusing "relationship-of-sorts" with Terence (aka Terry/Tel) was also hysterical.
Now HE really was a character!
Terry was funny as hell and came out with some brilliant one-liners. He was also extremely gross and crude at times (but in a very amusing way!) and occasionally he would do something so gentle and cute that it would catch me completely by surprise and I would find myself going "Awwww."
I thought it was very sweet the way he worried about both Sadie and Liam and gave them the encouragement and support they needed to grow and develop and go after what they wanted.
The scene recreation wasn't what I expected...
I thought that they were going to actually film themselves recreating their favourite scenes but actually that wasn't the case but I found myself actually liking that fact. The scene recreations were a way for them to grow as characters and become the people they wanted to be.
My favourite recreation scene was without shadow of a doubt the scene that Liam chose to do...in the end. Not just because it was from one of my favourite films ever but also because it was just so perfect and sweet at that point in the story. (But I won't spoil that for you!) ;)
This was a different novel for me to read but one that I very much enjoyed.
It made me smile, laugh, squirm, melt, cry, gasp in shock, cringe and laugh even more.
I really connected with the characters and learned a lot from them.
I would definitely recommend this book. It's lighthearted, funny and just a nice read.
After becoming addicted to Curham's brilliant series Shipwrecked I thought I'd give one of her newest novels a go! Being a lover of movies myself, this one sounded like it would be right up my street...and it was indeed.
The Scene Stealers is a very character driven story, told from lots of different perspectives. More specifically the perspectives of: Sadie, Liam, Terry and Lana.
It was filled with scenes of fun and laughs along with some lovely sweet and tender moments, shocking twists, tears and tragedy.
I enjoyed reading Sadie's character development over the course of the novel. I loved how she grows from a timid and uncertain young girl into a strong, confident and sassy young woman.
Liam Costello was without shadow of a doubt my favourite character. He was sweet and endearing, shy and kind. He also had an attitude that I really liked. He had great thoughts and opinions and some of his advice to Sadie spoke to me as much as it did to her.
What's more, I found his friendship with Terry endearing and at times hysterical. What I loved even more however was the slow development of Liam's friendship with Sadie and the way their friendship grew into something more... I loved reading the chapters from his perspective, especially where G.L Jenkins was concerned.
Now HE was a character I really despised in this book. I despised him every bit as much as Liam did. He was truly vile!! I also loathed the way he treated poor Sadie and the way Sadie LET him treat her. At times I found myself wanting to shake her every bit as much as Lana Loveday did.
Lana Loveday was a character with whom I had mixed feelings about. I could never quite make up my mind as to whether I liked her or not, for a large portion of the book. She was a very complex character but her past was very interesting to read about and her developing friendship with Sadie was sweet. In the end I couldn't help my sympathise with her and found myself tearing up towards the end.
Her amusing "relationship-of-sorts" with Terence (aka Terry/Tel) was also hysterical.
Now HE really was a character!
Terry was funny as hell and came out with some brilliant one-liners. He was also extremely gross and crude at times (but in a very amusing way!) and occasionally he would do something so gentle and cute that it would catch me completely by surprise and I would find myself going "Awwww."
I thought it was very sweet the way he worried about both Sadie and Liam and gave them the encouragement and support they needed to grow and develop and go after what they wanted.
The scene recreation wasn't what I expected...
I thought that they were going to actually film themselves recreating their favourite scenes but actually that wasn't the case but I found myself actually liking that fact. The scene recreations were a way for them to grow as characters and become the people they wanted to be.
My favourite recreation scene was without shadow of a doubt the scene that Liam chose to do...in the end. Not just because it was from one of my favourite films ever but also because it was just so perfect and sweet at that point in the story. (But I won't spoil that for you!) ;)
This was a different novel for me to read but one that I very much enjoyed.
It made me smile, laugh, squirm, melt, cry, gasp in shock, cringe and laugh even more.
I really connected with the characters and learned a lot from them.
I would definitely recommend this book. It's lighthearted, funny and just a nice read.
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