Pull Focus, Helen Walsh
Pull Focus, Helen Walsh
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Pull Focus
A Novel

Author: Helen Walsh

Narrator: Shannon Blanchet

Unabridged: 8 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 12/15/2021

Synopsis

“Part Real Housewives, part grown-up Nancy Drew.” — Missy Marston, author of Bad Ideas When Jane’s partner goes missing she needs to find out if he’s in danger while also contending with the politics of a large international film festival: Hollywood power brokers, Russian oil speculators, Chinese propagandists, and a board chair who seemingly has it out for her. Jane has been appointed interim director of the Worldwide Toronto Film Festival after her boss has been removed for sexual harassment. Knives are out all around her, as factions within the community want to see her fail. At the same time, her partner, a fund manager, has disappeared, and strange women appear, uttering threats about misused funds. Yet the show must go on. As Jane struggles to juggle all the balls she’s been handed and survive in one piece, she discovers unlikely allies and finds that she’s stronger than she thinks.

About Helen Walsh

Helen Walsh is the author of three previous novels, Brass, which won a Betty Trask Award, Once Upon a Time in England, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, and Go To Sleep. She lives on Merseyside.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Seb on November 01, 2021

My aunt wrote this! It is great!!......more

Goodreads review by Lanette on November 29, 2021

This is a smart, authentic novel that aims to be a thriller but isn't quite at that pace. The main character, Jane, is a woman who has just been named interim CEO of an arts organization that hosts a celebrated film festival. She was given the job because her former boss has been brought down for se......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on April 03, 2023

There's a lot to like about this book, it's not quite a work novel and not quite a thriller but has enough elements of both to be pretty satisfying. It's well constructed, very readable, and feels different from a lot of what's out there right now. I would have liked it to tone down just a notch, tho......more

Goodreads review by Purabi on August 13, 2021

PULL FOCUS by Helen Walsh is a delightful story that captures the complex and often dark world of a Film Festival with the right amount of behind-the-scenes intrigue. Jane Browning becomes the interim director of the Worldwide Toronto Film Festival when her boss is removed from his position for sexu......more

Goodreads review by Terri on October 29, 2021

Enjoyable, suspenseful "boardroom to "bedroom" page turner set against a backdrop of Toronto's business and cultural scene. Lots of well written and very believable political intrigue -- and the boardroom politics are all the more believable considering the current family drama unfolding at Canada's......more

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