The Understudy

By: David Nicholls

Narrated by: Paul Thornley

Does your life feel like a dress rehearsal? Do you long to enter the limelight and steal the show? But what do you do when you're playing second fiddle to an arrogant actor who barely knows your name? And, more importantly, what do you do when you find yourself falling in love with his wife?

©2005 David Nicholls (P)2006 W F Howes Ltd

Lucky Jim is funny this one is painfull

I don't think it's going to happen, i mean the moment of engagement. So there is this guy, the understudy, who is an underdog. We observe the story from his point of view. But you can understand why he will always be an underdog because of his character. I should at least feel a spark of something but I don't. I gave up on him. The miracle has to happen without me.