Book Title: SOME LIKE IT COLD
Character Names: Jasper Montgomery and Arthur Lancaster
Interviewer: Thank you for sitting down with me, I’ve never been to Lake Pristine before. I’m enjoying the small-town life for the day. It’s a beautiful place. Can I just clarify who I have with me today? Jasper Montgomery and Arthur Lancaster?
Jasper: Yes, that’s correct.
Interviewer: And you’re… you’re Jasper? Sorry, unusual name for a girl.
(Awkward silence for about fifteen seconds.)
Interviewer: And you’re how old? Arthur?
Arthur (somewhat indifferently): Eighteen.
Interviewer: Both eighteen? Okay, I’ll take that slightly intimidating look as a ‘yes’, Arthur. Ha. Um. Okay, yes. And you’ve both lived here, in Lake Pristine, your whole lives?
Jasper (smiling): Yes.
Arthur: Liar.
Interviewer: I—
Jasper: I’m sorry, Arthur? Something to say?
Arthur: You moved to the city last year.
Jasper: For college!
Arthur: Yeah, so you’ve been living at college for eighteen months now, Princess. We haven’t heard one word from you in that entire time.
Interviewer: So, you’re back for the holidays, Jasper?
Jasper (still speaking to Arthur): I’m sorry I don’t run every decision I make past you, Grumble.
Arthur: You should. You wouldn’t be such a people pleaser.
Jasper: No interest in pleasing you, don’t stress on that.
Interviewer: Let’s get back on track. (clears throat) Arthur. You’re currently filming a documentary about Lake Pristine, is that correct?
Arthur: Yes. My cousin and I are doing it, yeah.
Jasper: He’s got the whole town in it.
Interviewer: Including you, Jasper?
Jasper: Yep. I dread to think how he’s going to make me look in the edit.
Arthur: She’s terrified of not seeming perfect, even for a second.
Interviewer: Well, that seems slightly uncharitable, Arthur.
Arthur: No. It’s not. I’ve known this girl since we were fourteen. She’s smart, she’s probably the smartest person in the whole town. She’s ambitious and she could do anything. Movie star, president, CEO. But she’s too worried about making her parents happy. Her best friend happy. Her sister. She never thinks about what might make her happy. That’s never a priority.
(pause)
Jasper: I think I’m going to go.
Arthur (instantly remorseful): Jasper—
Jasper leaves. Arthur puts his head in his hands.
Interviewer: For the benefit of the tape, Jasper Montgomery has just left and Arthur Lancaster looks a touch unhappy about it.
Arthur: She makes me act so stupid; I don’t know why.
Interviewer: Really? No idea why?
Arthur regards the recording device and says nothing.
Arthur: You can ask me the questions now.
Interviewer: Do you like living in Lake Pristine, Arthur?
Arthur: Yeah. It’s been… hard recently. But it’s fine. People smile at each other; everyone is pretty nice. And you’re seeing for yourself how much they go all out for the holidays.
Interviewer: Yes. What would you say makes you the happiest?
Arthur glances at Jasper’s empty chair beside him.
Arthur: Movies. I work in the old Arthouse just off Main Street. We’re showing lots of old classics this season. It’s a Wonderful Life, Shop Around the Corner. Some Like It Hot.
Interviewer: Do you get a lot of people coming to watch them?
Arthur: Well, actually. No, not really. Jasper’s the only one who has been coming religiously.
Interviewer: Just Jasper? Does she like movies?
Arthur: Yeah. She loves old romantic movies.
Interviewer: And you knew that? When you put on all these movies at your arthouse?
No answer.
Interviewer (cont’d): I think that’s really sweet, Arthur. That you put all these old movies on show, just for her. Knowing it might make her happy.
Arthur: Can you—can you not put this in the final interview?
Interviewer: You called Jasper ‘Princess’ and she called you ‘Grumble’. Can I ask why?
Arthur: There’s no great story. It started in school.
Interviewer: Were you ever friends in school?
Arthur: No, we moved in very different circles.
Interviewer: When will everyone see your documentary?
Arthur: We’re screening it at the Arthouse soon.
Interviewer: Well. I hope Jasper likes what you’ve filmed.
Editor’s Note: The documentary screening took place shortly after this interview and was a very dramatic affair. Responses were mixed.
A big-hearted small-town romance from bestselling, award-winning author Elle McNicoll, Some Like it Cold is perfect for fans of Alice Oseman, Rainbow Rowell and Gilmore Girls.
After a long absence, 18-year-old Jasper is finally heading home for the holidays - and she's keeping secrets.
Arthur, a budding filmmaker, is turning the town of Lake Pristine into a small town story worthy of the big screen. His plans are disrupted by the arrival of the town's golden girl - the antagonist of his school days; a girl he's never forgotten.
Jasper Montgomery is back in Lake Pristine for one reason: to say goodbye. But before long small-town tensions start to rise, and a certain brooding film buff starts to look like a very big reason to stay . . .
The perfect story to get lost in, Some Like it Cold centers Jasper as an autistic heroine in a big-hearted small-town romance that will melt your heart.
Young Adult | Romance Contemporary [Wednesday Books, On Sale: October 1, 2024, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781250335531 / eISBN: 9781250882172]
Elle McNicoll is a bestselling and award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Her debut, A Kind of Spark, won the Blue Peter Book Award and the Overall Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, as well as Blackwell’s Book of 2020. She is a four time Carnegie nominated author, and was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Awards 2020, 2021 and 2022, the Branford Boase Award 2020 and The Little Rebels Award 2020 and 2021. She was also honoured in the US with the Schneider Award, 2022. Her second novel, Show Us Who You Are, was Blackwell’s Book of the Month and one of The Bookseller’s Best Books of 2021. Her first fantasy middle grade, Like a Charm, was nominated for Best Children’s Book for Older Readers in the first ever Week Junior Book Awards, and was highly praised in the New York Times. Her debut novel, A Kind of Spark, has also been adapted for television, which debuted on UK and US screens on the 2nd of April, 2023. It is Emmy nominated and won Best Children’s Programme at the Broadcast Awards in London, 2024 and is now streaming in many territories around the globe. A second season is currently in production. Her debut was named as one of the greatest children’s books of all time, coming in at number 75, and she is twice nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Her YA debut, Some Like It Cold, will be published on October 1st (US) and October 3rd (UK). She is an advocate for better representation of neurodiversity in publishing, and currently lives in North London.
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