The Continuity Girl: a novel

Meredith Moore: reluctant daughter,devoted friend, flawless continuity girl, raging sperm bandit.

Meredith Moore is the perfectcontinuity girl. An on-set film script supervisor, it is her job to make sureevery frame of the picture is consistent with the one before. She is the errorcatcher. The needle-in-the-haystack finder. A cigarette in the left hand when itshould be in the right, a prematurely melted ice cube in a half-empty glass ofScotch, a stray lock of an actor’s hair—these are the details by which shemeasures out her life.

But when Meredith wakes up on themorning of her 35^th birthday yearning for a baby, her personal senseof continuity is thrown into flux. Determined not to marry, she impulsivelyflees to London to reunite with her eccentric single mother and accept a new jobon a well-known producer’s film set. Her covert plan: to become a Sperm Banditand find an unsuspecting donor to father her child.

Navigating London’s murky socialwaters, Meredith is thrown into a strange new story, one that quickly spins outof control. In her quest to get pregnant on her own terms, she will accidentallyuncover a web of secrets that will change the way she envisions both her workinglife and the nature of love.

LEAH MCLAREN's weekly column in The Globe and Mail reaches millions of Canadian readers every week. She has served as the paper's London arts correspondent and was nominated for a National Newspaper Award for her work abroad. While McLaren was in the UK, her writing was published in The Times, The London Evening Standard, The Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator magazine. Leah McLaren lives in Toronto. Visit her at www.leahmclaren.ca.