Big Fish

<b>** A MAJOR TIM BURTON FILM starring Ewan Mcgregor and Jessica Lange **<br> ** COMING SOON AS A MUSICAL starring Kelsey Grammer **</b><br> <br> <b>Do you ever really know your father? </b><br> <br> Like many sons, <b>William Bloom</b> never really knew his father. <b>Edward</b> told him stories too incredible to believe about his exploits as a younger man, but any attempt to find out serious truths have been met with laughter and brush-offs. And that never mattered. But now Edward is dying, suddenly it matters a great deal. <br> <br> So William sets out to tell his father's story, as he imagines it. He tames a giant, is dragged by an enormous fish through a lake and escapes a purgatory of lost dreams. Through legends and myths, William makes Edward into a true <b>Big Fish. </b><br> <br> <b>The much beloved book by Daniel Wallace is soon to be a Christmas musical at The Other Palace in London. <br> <br> Praise for <i>Big Fish</i>:</b><br> <br> 'Both <b>comic</b> and <b>poignant</b>' <i>New York Times</i><br> <br> 'An <b>audacious</b>, highly original debut novel. . . An imaginative, and moving, <b>record of a son's love</b> for a charming, unknowable father' <i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br> <br> '<b>Refreshing</b>, original. . . Wallace mixes the mundane and the mythical. His chapters have the transformative quality of <b>fable and fairy tale</b>' <i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review