Meet Lynette - actor, writer, director, showrunner.





It's her birthday. She's waking up in a hotel room, hungover, in a dreary English seaside town. Outside are grey skies, crazy golf, a row of Border Defense huts.She hasn't worked in a while (she hasn't been very well). But maybe you recognize her from that television drama that ran and ran?





She is about to star in her final movie in her head. But is it a farce, a comedy, a tragedy - or just her life? Knowing Lynette, she won't go gently into that good night.



'Burn and Rave swerves around the bends of the human heart, and then miraculously delivers you home. It left me inspired, consoled, and thankful.' Samantha Harvey



Max Porter is the author of four novels, including the Sunday Times #1 bestseller Shy, the Booker Prize longlisted Lanny, and the multi award-winning Grief is the Thing with Feathers, which has been translated into thirty six languages. He wrote the screenplay for the Bafta-nominated film Steve.