Halle Berry is committed to star in the feature adaptation of Beth Harbison’s novel Shoe Addicts Anonymous. The script was written by Kristen Buckley & Brian Regan (How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days), and will be produced by Galgos Entertainment’s Russell Nuce and Mark Bozek, and Parallel Media’s Raymond Markovich and Arcadiy Golubovich.
The women — all of whom wear a 7 1/2 — form a support group based on their shared love of fancy footwear. In her first comedic role since “Bulworth,” Berry will play an agoraphobe phone-sex operator who uses the internet to feed her shoe addiction.
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Book Jacket:
Four different women. One common shoe size. And a shared lust for fabulous footwear.
Helene Zaharis’s politician husband keeps her on a tight leash and cancels her credit cards as a way of controlling her. Lorna Rafferty is up to her eyeballs in debt and can’t stop her addiction to eBay. Sandra Vanderslice, battling agoraphobia, pays her shoe bills by working as a phone-sex operator. And Jocelyn Bowen is a nanny for the family from hell (who barely knows a sole from a heel but who will do anything to get out of the house.)
On Tuesday nights, these women meet to trade shoes and, in the process, form friendships that will help them each triumph over their problems—from secret pasts to blackmail, bankruptcy, and dating. Funny, emotional, and powerful, Shoe Addicts Anonymous is a perfect read for any woman who has ever struggled to find the perfect ?t.
Critics say (of the book):
Arriving just in time for beach-read season, the effervescent fiction debut of cookbook author and romance novelist Harbison features four D.C.-area women who meet weekly to swap and chat about… shoes…Harbison does a fine job of showcasing how each woman is trapped—Lorna by her debt, Helene by her marriage, Sandra by her self-image, Joss by her employment contract—and how the fresh eyes of the group allow them to see themselves in a new light. Harbison creates vivid, convincing characters and handles them well. Reading this novel is like eating a slice of cake.
– Publisher’s Weekly
Readers will root for these four plucky women. Like the designer shoes that pepper its pages, this book is pleasing and stylish. This frothy confection is sure to fly off the shelves this summer.
– Booklist
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