She was the most
famous author of the 1990's, splashed across front pages and plastered across inside
pages too, and a favourite of TV shows for her revealing biography of John
Major and a subsequent collection of mini biographies of "Britain's Top
100 Eligible Bachelors." These two books were all about Sex, Power and
Politics and Sex, Power and Money. She denied being John Major's Mistress while
Edwina Curry believed this was true
After a decade
of inconvenient celebrity, of being stopped in the street for autographs and
written about in a way she thought distorted her character, Nesta Wyn Ellis
decided to live in Paris. She returned to the uk last year after 13 years.
At once, she set
about editing and organising the publication on Amazon Kindle of some of her
novels. One, 'The Banker's Daughter' is a title well known to the public,
already issued in hardback and paperback and still available from Internet
bookshops world-wide
Some reviewers
compared it, due to its tale of passion across a class divide, with DH
Lawrence's famous love story, 'Lady Chatterly's Lover.' Currently, there are
many who say this wonderfully plotted story of obsessive sexual passion set
against a taughtly drawn background of Westminster politics, crime and City of
London banking is far more tittilating than Fifty Shades of Grey.
Lioness Books is
also publishing three novels Nesta wrote in Paris. One of these "Three
Days in September," is the book version of the screen story she is now
producing and will direct.
Set mainly in
Paris, 'Three Days In September' tells how a singer who follows her elusive
love there, is compelled to resolve shadowy issues from her past, when, in
Paris, she meets a second love: the encounter moves the story forward into a
confusing miasma of haunting visions.
Nesta's songs
and theme music will bring a beautiful subtext to the story, enhancing the
subtle shades of grey of the Parisian Autumn and Winter scenes and the deeply
melancholic mood of this drama of divided love.
Locations have
been found, some key actors identified and distribution and production finance
are being coordinated.
Work on the
musical score now dominates Nesta's agenda. Some songs that she has already
performed at London and Paris concerts and the Edinburgh Festival in English
and French have been recorded on earlier albums. Now, songs composed in Paris
and London form the body of work that will be part of the film score and tracks
for the latest album she is preparing.
Hard on the
heels of this comes the actual production work and directing of scenes for
'Three Days In September' in London, Germany but mainly France (where Nesta, a
fluent French speaker, has already worked on productions for internationally
based companies with her 'Paris Production Services' facility).
A half hour
interview in the Face to Face series from ITV Wales appears on October 23rd. A
tour of Nesta's career from her political and journalistic days to her singing
and film production developments will keep audiences engrossed with the life of
this unusual and versatile talent. Meanwhile, she is completing work on a version
of her life story that covers those most startling years from the late 1970's
in Africa, America and London to her departure, shrouded in mystique, for
another life and a story, yet to be revealed, in Paris.
Links to Four
novels by Nesta Wyn Ellis published by Lioness Books on Amazon Kindle"
The Mistress
Three Days in September
The Banker’s Daughter
A Love Is Like A Day
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