The People's Princess of China

By Anne Cestors

A one-of-a-kind, once-in-a-lifetime collector's item, this "Movie-In-A-Book" was published at the height of Covid lockdown, when cinemas around the world were shut tight.

Authored by its very own cast and crew of unruly "post-terrestrial entities"*, jockeying to become movie stars while the coast was clear, the story aspires to become a statement of love and life.

("Post-Terrestrial Entity"* is the new politically-correct term for "Ghost").*

Log-line:

In May of 2018, romantic comedy sent a beautiful rookie journalist from China's largest daily newspaper, to cover Prince Harry's royal wedding to the stunning Meghan Markle.

However, because of a commotion with the printing presses, the Assistant Editor at the China Daily News, has misheard the word Royal, and accidentally sends her beautiful journalist to Boyle in County Roscommon, Ireland, in the company of three seasoned photographers, none of whom speak a word of English.

By an appalling coincidence, when the Chinese reporting crew arrive into their mistaken destination, Irish-American heart-throb, Harry O'Toole, is on the point of being duped into a shotgun wedding.

Through a series of dramatic events, the shotgun wedding comes unstuck on the steps of the altar.

Rather than let the Chinese journalist and her photographers incur the risk of getting fired for missing their print deadline, local priest, Father Fagan and his Parish Council believe it to be their civic and moral duty to save the day, by staging a mock wedding.

But, the only wedding dress available at a local bridal store, is too narrow for anyone except the beautiful Chinese journalist to fit into.

Within seconds of print deadline, the editor of the China Daily News receives the photographs and copy for his much-anticipated front-page story.

Only sufficient time remains for some surprising typographical errors in the headlines to be corrected, before the whole of China becomes reliably informed, that Prince Harry has just married a stunningly beautiful daughter of China.

How will everyone save their jobs, and how will the newly discovered People's Princess of China cope with the impending reality of an arranged marriage to her cousin, someone she has never met?

An important back-story:

When the beautiful Luo Hongling discovered on social media that her husband of six months had married her to cover up the fact that he was a gay man, who would ever have thought that the tragedy of her permanent solution to a temporary crisis would unlock The Mystery of Edwin Drood?

Romantic comedy rarely gets to un-tell the devastation caused by a global pandemic no one wants to talk about.

By her rhetorical reincarnation as the breath-taking People's Princess of China, English-Irish actress Ellen Ternan emerges from 'The Dead' to join Gretta Conroy in pining for Michael Fury, and her own lost love.

Four weddings, no funerals and the profanity of an Irish parish priest conspire to fashion a range of reasons to love life.

As the Cinderella of creative writing, romantic comedy finally gets to rock the foundations of English literature

PS: 8 million people die by suicide around the world every decade. The silent stigma is killing countless vulnerable people, including many in the prime of their lives. If suicide was caused by a virus, there would be a massive outcry. It is widely known that the collective caring impact of the Papageno Effect, can bring people back from the brink of their silent pain. As never previously attempted, Father Fagan and The People's Princess of China conspire to give parents, teachers, friends of vulnerable individuals and politicians, a light-hearted, challenging handle, on the collective caring impact of the Papageno Effect, by showcasing the role entertainment science plays in charting alternative outcomes to a wide range of seemingly intractable pr

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B096TRSTVF
• ISBN13: 9798509665172
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"