Big Fish

** A MAJOR TIM BURTON FILM starring Ewan Mcgregor and Jessica Lange ** ** COMING SOON AS A MUSICAL starringKelsey Grammer **Do you ever really know your father? Like many sons,William Bloomnever really knew his father.Edwardtold him stories too incredible to believe about his exploits as a younger man, but any attempt to find out serious truths have been met with laughter and brush-offs. And that never mattered. But nowEdwardis dying, suddenly it matters a great deal. So Williamsets out to tell his fathers story, as he imagines it. He tames a giant, is dragged by an enormous fish through a lake and escapes a purgatory of lost dreams.Through legends and myths,WilliammakesEdwardinto a trueBig Fish.The much beloved book by Daniel Wallace is soon to be a Christmas musical at The Other Palace in London. Praise forBig Fish: Both comic and poignantNew York Times An audacious, highly original debut novel. . . An imaginative, and moving, record of a son's love for a charming, unknowable fatherKirkus Reviews Refreshing, original. . . Wallace mixes the mundane and the mythical. His chapters have the transformative quality of fable and fairy talePublishers Weekly, starred review