Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. At the same time that the author meets his "Aunt Julia", the radio station, which had been buying scripts by weight from Cuba, hires a Bolivian scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho to write the serials.

'I can't remember ever reading anything so moving. I've had to go back to bed! It's so BEAUTIFUL and convincing and so so sad, but worth it because the story is so compelling.' - MARIAN KEYES