Globe Style columnist Leah McLaren was on-line this afternoon taking questions about her weekly column and her first book.
Leah is a regular fixture in the Globe's Saturday Style section where she writes about life in the big city — everything from her relationship with her Filofax I've found love, and its name is Filofax to the socio-economic lessons of shopping for jeans Only fashion could make me bathe with jeans on
Leah's new book, The Continuity Girl, is about an on-set film script supervisor whose own sense of continuity is turned upside down when she wakes up on her 35th birthday, suddenly deafened by the ticking of her biological clock.
Reviewer Joanna Goodman wrote in the Saturday Globe: "With the release of her first novel, The Continuity Girl, Globe and Mail writer Leah McLaren positions herself at the forefront of this literary movement, proving that chicklit can be clever, poignant and insightful." The full review is here Sex and the single sperm bandit
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Michael Snider, globeandmail.com: Hello everyone and welcome Leah — it's great to have you on-line today talking about your weekly column and especially your book. Congratulations on that, by the way. So, now, obvious question: They say the first novel is somewhat autobiographical. How much of Leah McLaren's story is told through Meredith Moore?
Leah McLaren: Hardly any of it. Honestly. I'm nothing like Meredith. I don't have anxiety attacks over dirty dishes and I'm not a sperm bandit. I did go to London but not to work as a continuity girl.
Much of what I write in the paper is autobiographical, so it was important to me that my first novel wasn't.
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