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About the author
OWEN NICHOLLS is a screenwriter with a masters in scriptwriting. His first screenplay—a biopic of the filmmakers Powell and Pressburger—was optioned to Bedlam Productions, the BAFTA- and Academy Award–winning producers of The King’s Speech. His work has appeared in Empire and NME, and in 2018, his debut novel Love, Unscripted was selected for the Escalator talent development program run by the National Centre for Writing. Nicholls has worked at the Toronto International Film Festival and at Toronto’s Vanguarde Artists as a script reader. He lives in Norfolk, England, with his wife and children.
Summary
Right person, wrong time. Again. Tom and Jess’s connection is magnetic, but can they ever get the timing right?
Jess is a comedian looking to make it, and Tom is in a band hoping for its big break. When they wind up at the same Edinburgh festival, they run into each other, literally. What begins as a chance encounter and a scraped knee turns into something more during a magical night exploring the city’s streets and best pubs. But things start to go awry, and when Jess hears from Tom’s best friend that there’s a girlfriend in the picture, she bolts.
But this meet-cute just won’t quit. Through the bumpy beginnings of their creative careers, Tom and Jess can’t stop thinking about each other, whether it’s the right time or not. Their run-ins are disastrous, and yet neither can write the other off and out of their life altogether. If what’s meant to be will be, how many chances do you get?
A rom-com for true romantics, Perfect Timing is love at first sight, disrupted—but never forgotten.
