B movies, blue love - Bella Pollen

Sometimes life can be like a bad movie. You sit through it, hoping it will get better, suspecting that it won't and wondering at what point you can reasonably walk out . . .

Kit Audrey Butler is the manager of the Orange, a dilapidated independent cinema.

Estranged from her father, undermined by her boyfriend, and with her third screenplay recently rejected, Kit finds herself badly adrift. Her favourite therapy, renting the appropriate video and scrutinizing the footage for clues on how to behave, no longer provides her with all the answers. But when new ownership threatens the Orange, Kit is force to confront reality and discovers that help and heroes come in the unlikeliest of forms.

B Movies, Blue Love is about confidence and the lack of it, success and the pursuit of it, love and the difficulty of understanding it, and, above all, the movies and how spectacularly dull life would be without them.

'Grotesquely funny' Daily Express

'Give it to all the women you know' Tatler