I met Megan Dunn on a whale-watching trip during last year's Word festival, and she told me a little bit about this book, so when I got back to Christchurch I bought it (and then of course it sat in Mt TBR for many months...)

It does read a little like a creative writing class exercise - much of the book is Dunn writing about the difficulties of writing - but it actually makes for quite an interesting story, interweaving Dunn's career in the failing Borders chain with the characters of Farenheit 451 (and the even more fictionalised life Dunn invents for them).