Claire Elizabeth Terry received a beautiful rose from her son during a holiday in Barcelona, Spain and that incident began the unfolding of a story that will soon be on the big screen. In my conversation with her, Claire shares what it took to bring the ideas rolling in her mind into a movie script and book. She didn’t have the time and energy looking for a way to fill her days. She felt a call to tell the story and then set an outrageous goal to answer.
I Draw Roses tells the story of an artist who sits in his London studio, drawing roses.
Unbeknown to each other, six women from all over the world have each commissioned him to draw a rose for a friend in crisis: Betsy, from the American heartlands, who’s about to lose her farm; Lola, an Argentinian in self-imposed romantic exile in Spain; Amala, a beautiful Indian bank executive whose emotional bankruptcy has taken her to the brink of despair; Gisella, a young Italian housewife, who prefers her daydreams to returning to the job which she dreads; Miriam, a widow in South Africa, whose inability to stand up for herself means that she’s oblivious to her own desires, and Kate, on the verge of marrying the wrong man, returning to Australia after a love affair in England went sour.
As the drawing of her rose evolves, however, each woman’s life begins, slowly and mysteriously, to be transformed…
Claire Elizabeth Terry trained in stage-management at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, London, and is a British screenwriter, travel writer and novelist. Claire lives in Barcelona, Spain, with her son, Roberto, and a bunch of neuroses.
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