Big Fish

** A MAJOR TIM BURTON FILM starring Ewan Mcgregor and Jessica Lange ** ** COMING SOON AS A MUSICAL starringKelsey Grammer ** Do you ever really know your father? Like many sons,William Bloomnever really knew his father.Edwardtold him stories too incredible to believe about his exploits as a younger man, but any attempt to find out serious truths have been met with laughter and brush-offs. And that never mattered. But nowEdwardis dying, suddenly it matters a great deal. So Williamsets out to tell his father's story, as he imagines it. He tames a giant, is dragged by an enormous fish through a lake and escapes a purgatory of lost dreams.Through legends and myths,WilliammakesEdwardinto a trueBig Fish. The much beloved book by Daniel Wallace is soon to be a Christmas musical at The Other Palace in London. Praise forBig Fish: 'Daniel Wallace has created a jewel inBig Fish' Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump 'Both comic and poignant'New York Times 'An audacious, highly original debut novel. . . An imaginative, and moving, record of a son's love for a charming, unknowable father'Kirkus Reviews 'Refreshing, original. . . Wallace mixes the mundane and the mythical. His chapters have the transformative quality of fable and fairy tale'Publishers Weekly, starred review