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    A Night in the Life of an Extra
    A Night in the Life of an Extra
    A Night in the Life of an Extra
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    A Night in the Life of an Extra

    By Maxine Sarr

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    Kelly’s life is, in her own words, boring. As a child, she envisaged setting the world on fire, be famous. One day she reads an advertisement:

    Local extras needed to take part as slaves in the forthcoming production of Verdi’s Aida at the Opera House.

    The sounds of paparazzi cameras clicking, popping champagne corks, shouts to her on red carpet events, these treats, and more, beckoned. Kelly’s ticket to riches was how she saw the advertisement. She would be discovered; her kismet, a star on Broadway. Is Kelly’s life destined to rocket into a new stratosphere?

    Read: A Night in the Life of an Extra to find out.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMaxine Sarr
    Release dateOct 12, 2016
    ISBN9781370492770
    A Night in the Life of an Extra
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    Maxine Sarr

    My name is Maxine Sarr and I'm a former criminal defence lawyer from Manchester. Moral Justice grew from a throwaway conversation I had with another lawyer about a particular acquittal. That was over ten years ago.I'm now an English teacher living in Ecuador and I decided that the time was right to write. I have just self-published Moral Justice on Amazon. My pen name, Catherine Michael, is in memory of my sister and brother.I have lived in Ecuador for just over four years now and I love it here. I didn't pick Ecuador, Ecuador picked me. After leaving my dream job as a lawyer I drifted from temp job to temp job trying to find something I felt passionate about. Three years later I hadn't found it and then I had a conversation with a good friend, Catherine, and she was heading to Thailand to teach English. The lightbulb went on and, as I love Thailand, decided to go there. I went to bed and had the most vivid dream I have ever had; the colours the shimmering are still very difficult for me to describe. I woke up and the first word I said was Ecuador; as I didn't know what the word was I googled it and found out it was a country! The weekend was spent reading as much as I could about the country and by Monday I had decided that was where I would go. My family and friends didn't understand the strength of the dream and thought (some still think) I'm crazy.A year later I had given away all my possessions, packed everything else in two rucksacks and arrived in Quito on a one-way ticket. That was when I started to panic; I didn't know Spanish, I'd never been to South America before, I didn't have a job, I didn’t know anyone. It took a while to settle but I've carved myself a little niche in a countryside village called Bucay where the local refer to me as the Inglesa who walks. I love walking in the countryside here, by the rivers, near the mountains, beautiful - I suppose the grass is greener. They think life must be better in the Western World but they are proud that I chose their pueblo to be my home.

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      A Night in the Life of an Extra - Maxine Sarr

      A NIGHT IN THE LIFE OF AN EXTRA

      The Making of a Star?

      A Night in the Life of an Extra by Maxine Sarr

      Published by Smashwords

      Copyright © 2016 by Maxine Sarr

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations or in book reviews.

      CHAPTER ONE

      "Oh my god, I will die of boredom." Aware she sounded like a broken record Kelly was unable to stop herself. It happens the same time every day; lunch over (uninspiring shop bought chicken salad) and the afternoon lay before her with only a coffee break to interrupt the monotony.

      Jackie, bored with listening about Kelly’s boredom, glanced at her and turned away. She knew how pointless it would be to say a word to get Kelly out of the lunchtime funk. Jackie returned to her lunch, the foul smelling but tasty Bombay Bad Boy noodles had become her guilty pleasure.

      Kelly, disappointed Jackie had not fed her a line, enabling her to continue her ‘woe is me’ rant, turned to a copy of the Manchester Evening News. Kelly flicked through hoping to find something to fuel her inner pity party. And there it was, advertising itself in bright lights, loud klaxons, streamers and balloons. Local extras needed to take part as slaves in the forthcoming production of Verdi’s Aida at the Opera House.

      Jackie, look, have you seen this?

      Kelly waved the newspaper in front of Jackie’s face. Jackie took the paper looked at Kelly, looked at the advert, back at Kelly. Yeah. Why not?

      Jackie’s attention returned to more important matters; what colour to paint her nails today.

      It crossed Kelly’s mind that Jackie was one reason for her negativity. She resolved to get a new best work friend and the advert may be the answer to her prayers.

      This is it Jackie. Can you imagine? I get discovered as an extra and I’m catapulted into a lead role with…

      Kelly’s imagination was interrupted by Jackie laughing her evil dictator

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