Stuffed

Bryan Grace was an Australian swimming legend of the 1990s brought down by over-eating. He blew it when he blew out, just before the Olympics.

Sterling Seagrove wants to make the movie of Bryan's life. So he hires soap opera hunk Garvey Quinn. "What I want is a complete blank, someone I can mould into exactly what I want, like a lump of clay. And to be brutally frank, you're the blankest actor I've ever seen."

But Garvey soon finds that Seagrove also expects him to change himself, physically, into Bryan Grace in his later days, as a grossly inflated sort of human beanbag. Vanloads of KFC start to arrive at the door, and Bryan's girlfriend gets nervous. How will he lose the weight afterwards?

And then Bryan Grace turns up, alive.

This is a sharp, very funny novel about celebrity in all its shapes and sizes.