Nobody” is not the fictionalized retelling of the Piano Man (who was later found to be a hoaxer) but a highly imaginative tale tinged with Hitchcockian tension and kinetic pacing.ĭr. He sparked a media frenzy and was later dubbed the Piano Man after witnesses heard him play Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” from memory. The story line draws from a real-life event: In 2005, a man dressed in sopping wet formal wear was found wandering in the English coastal town of Kent, claiming that he had no idea who he was. The novel’s cinematic opening begins with a half-frozen man floundering on an English beach in winter, his memory gone. Nobody” is equally fit for the big screen. Steadman’s 2018 debut novel, “Something in the Water” - a page-turning tale of a couple’s life-changing discovery while on their honeymoon - caught the attention of Reese Witherspoon, who chose it for her book club and is set to produce it for film. Catherine Steadman - whom “Downton Abbey” fans may know as the actress who played Lady Mary's rival, the Honorable Mabel Lane Fox - returns to the page with a twisty new psychological thriller, “Mr.
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