Mrs Tembe's inspired by a risque novelist!
Mrs Tembe is full of self-importance as she tells Karen that her church group have selected her to organise an event to save the local library. She has booked well-respected historian Robin Garvey to speak and she invites Heston to join them. At the library, Mrs Tembe is horrified to discover she's actually booked Robyn Garvey instead - an author of erotic fiction! Mrs Tembe makes it clear to Robyn that she finds her style of writing depraved and decides to read from Robin Garvey's history book herself. As the audience start to fall asleep some of them who had come to hear Robyn realise she's sat at the back and finally Heston and the audience appeal for Mrs Tembe to let Robyn read instead. As Robyn reads her novel Enslaved Duchess of Desire she notices that Mrs Tembe is being drawn into the story and she mischievously decides to fake an asthma attack. Heston attends to Robyn, who railroads Mrs Tembe into taking over the reading much to her embarrassment. After the reading, the library signs up new members and Heston congratulates Mrs Tembe on her success. Mrs Tembe asks after Robyn and is furious to discover she's been tricked. Robyn is unrepentant and hands Mrs Tembe a signed copy of her book. Mrs Tembe doesn't know what to do, but then quickly puts it in her bag... until everyone has gone home when she gets it out and reads it with a small smile on her face. Also, when jealousy gets the better of a teenage girl, the happiness and life of her innocent sister is threatened.
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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.
An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.