Famous Last Words

Alice spends her days beavering away at her sewing machine, making divine, flamboyant clothes that express all the passion and flair that she cannot, and at night she sits alone with her latest creations, fretting over her struggling business. Her life is one of unfulfilled ambitions and missed opportunities. Then one evening Alice meets the beautiful, fey and enigmatic Gabriel, who has an uncanny knack for foretelling fortunes, and manages to convince even the cynical Alice. So when Gabe tells her that her future isn't looking too rosy - in fact she doesn't have one - Alice embarks on a spree of 'what the hell and why not'. She faces her demons, confronts those that have annoyed her, and takes risks for the first time in her life, convinced that the accident he predicts will befall her. When the day of her prophesied demise comes - and goes - Alice storms round to challenge Gabe, who sheepishly admits he must have got it wrong this time. The appalled and angry Alice has a hell of a mess to put right now, and demands that Gabe help her do some damage control. So begins an edge-of-the-seat, race-against-time to repair Alice's reckless actions. But halfway through Alice asks herself if everything is worth mending? Has she inadvertently improved her life just as she thought it was about to end? And why is Gabe so reluctant to help her untangle her biggest gaffe of all?


Genre: General Fiction