An exclusive first glimpse at Fearne's novel: your questions answered
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Fearne’s written a novel! It’s called Scripted, and it tells the story of Jade – a thirty-something who, out on a run, stumbles upon a script that seems to predict likely scenarios and relationship dynamics in her life. Having been given a sneak peek at her future, can Jade now speak up, and rewrite her own destiny?
You’ve been DMing and voicenoting Fearne, asking her questions about the writing process, who inspired her characters, and whether she’s included her wealth of mental health knowledge in the novel...
Plus, there’s an exclusive listen to the entire first chapter of the Scripted audiobook!
Scripted is out now.
The audiobook, read by Erin Doherty, and brought to you by Penguin is also available: https://adbl.co/3U7EP1P
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello it's Fern here popping in quickly before the show because I really want to hear from you. |
| 0:06.0 | I am forever grateful to you every single time you press play on an episode of Happy Place |
| 0:11.2 | and this show really is for you. So in the interest of doing |
| 0:16.3 | more stuff that you love and less of the stuff you're not bothered by, I would love |
| 0:20.6 | it if you took a couple of minutes to fill out a little survey for me. |
| 0:24.8 | The link will be in the show notes. |
| 0:27.2 | Your input on the content and the format and the guests and all those types of things is so important to help me and the Happy Place team |
| 0:35.6 | shape the future of Happy Place. So just click on the link in the show notes to |
| 0:40.6 | share all your thoughts and musings. I appreciate you loads. |
| 0:46.0 | Throwing a look over her shoulder to ensure she was alone, Jade started to read. |
| 0:52.0 | Jade. She froze. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello and welcome to the Happy Place Book Club with me, Fern Cotton. |
| 1:00.0 | More mentions of her name. Her eyes jumped. |
| 1:04.0 | Today, scripted by me, Fern Cotton. |
| 1:07.0 | Adam. |
| 1:08.0 | What? |
| 1:10.0 | Her eyes ran back up to the top. Above the first line of script, headed with her own name was a stage direction. |
| 1:19.0 | Jade leans against the kitchen worktop. One of the cupboard doors overhead is wonky, |
| 1:25.0 | as the top hinge is loose. |
| 1:27.0 | Jade stares at the floor to avoid eye contact with Adam. |
| 1:31.0 | Jade's stomach lurched. Her kitchen cupboarder, the one that stored her ever-growing |
| 1:37.4 | assortment of mugs was hanging by loose hinges. Her eyes... Scripted is my first novel. It's a happy place book club pick for June and it is out right now. |
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