The Grand Scheme of Things by Warona Jay

Thank you @WeAreFootnote @Bonnierbooks_uk @KellyALacey @lovebookstours #Ad #LBTCrew #BookTwitter #FreeReview #FreeBookReview for letting me be part of this tour and reviewing this book. The Grand Scheme of things is a contemporary fiction. The story is about Eddie who is a play write and wants to make it big but gets rejected a few things which cause issues and then there is Hugo who has a law degree and wants to get out of that world and makes friends with Eddie, and they try to hatch a plan for Eddie play to be on stage and Hugo to be famous. This is interesting read, and it was enjoyable to follow Eddie and Hugo story. It did make me smile in places and is written well that will keep you entertained to the end. I read Grand Scheme in a few days and it was easy to get into and was refreshing to read something different, I know nothing about. 4 stars. Blurb Two unlikely friends hatch an extraordinary scheme to expose the theater world in this wildly entertaining and sharply observed debut novel exploring perception, redemption, and how success shapes us all. Meet Relebogile Naledi Mpho Moruakgomo. Or, for short, Eddie: an aspiring playwright who dreams of making it big in London's theatre world. But after repeated rejections from white talent agents, Eddie suspects her non-white sounding name might be the problem. Enter Hugo Lawrence Smith: good looking, well-connected, charismatic and . . . very white. Stifled by his law degree and looking for a way out of the corporate world, he finds a kindred spirit in Eddie after a chance encounter at a cafe. Together they devise a plan, one which will see Eddie's play on stage and Hugo's name in lights. They send out her script under his name and vow to keep the play's origins a secret until it reaches critical levels of success. Then they can expose the theatre world for its racism and hollow clout-chasing. But as their plan spins wildly out of control, Eddie and Hugo find themselves wondering if their reputations, and their friendship, can survive. Author bio Born in Botswana, raised in the West Midlands, UK and living in London, Warona Jay studied law at the University of Kent and King's College London before switching to a creative writing PhD at Brunel. She was shortlisted for the Sony Young Novellist of the Year Award judged by Malorie Blackman as a teen and longlisted for Penguin Random House's WriteNow Scheme in 2020. The Grand Scheme of Things is her debut novel.