I read this courtesy of NetGalley. It’s out now.

Marnie is:

• a New Zealander,
• living in LA, because she is
• working as a costume supervisor, and
• a stitch-witch: fabric loves her and wants to make her happy.
  She is also:
• 41,
• ‘generously proportioned’,
• currently single, and
• bi (or pan? unclear).

As the story opens, the show she’s working on has finished, and Marnie is hoping for a position not just as a costume supervisor, but as a designer. And so when a position comes up back home, adapting one of her favourite fantasy series for the big screen, she agrees.

Note: the little nods to what LOTR did for NZ are a delight.

Basically the story is about Marnie on the film set, dealing with a) her attracting to the leading man, and b) weird occurrences that have plagued the filming since it started in NZ, and which begin to seem like they’re not random or natural.

Coming to Healey off the back of the Olympus Inc books, this is exactly what I was hoping for. Cosy, comfortable, fast-paced: I read it in one evening and I have no regrets.