Fans felt that she spoke directly to them, sharing their triumphs and failures humorously, through more than 20 books translated into 17 languages. Instead, she told stories about the beauty, and pain, of the everyday – of ordinary women, leading ordinary lives. It’s cosy and friendly there.” Her writing was not polemical or particularly pacey. Making up stories came as naturally for Dewar as breathing: “I love telling stories. When Dewar saw the crowds that had gathered outside the cinema, she said: “Look at all those people, we’ll never get in!” For its launch in 2001, the company sent a car to take her to the premiere. The resulting movie featured Helena Bonham Carter and Gina McKee – kooky and sensible respectively, with inadequate male partners. Isla Dewar’s second novel, Women Talking Dirty, became a film for which she wrote the screenplay
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