Angels of Cairo Paperback / softback

Lewis has written a script. Eighty pages in ten days. Hardly slept... He taps the bag on his shoulder with adelicate fingertip like it's a hot kettle.

Cliff is then giventen minutes on the problem with Lewis's printer.

Thenthe history of problems with his printer. Then problemswith printers more generally... Robert Clifford is in Cairo to present his latest film fora festival prize.

It has taken seven gruelling years ofhis life to make and is definitely NOT a film about hismother.

But his moment in the spotlight is not quite as hescripted.

There are rumours the jury could be influenced. Nobody can lay their hands on a copy of the film. Andeven his girlfriend thinks it's about his mother. Cliff's producer has not turned up but sent his nephewLewis Proudfoot instead.

Lewis has a script of his ownto sell and is determined that everyone should hearabout it.

Then a meeting is arranged with a group ofthe festival organiser's friends, who may or may not berevolutionaries... Angels of Cairo is a fast-moving, acerbic comedy toldover a single day but capturing a lifetime of angst andself-doubt.