‘If you know me at
all, you will know me as a liar.’
Kevin Carver is a
household name. A popular TV soap star, he’s coasting through life in the same
semi-detached, slightly smug way he’s always done.
But when he callously
dumps his much younger girlfriend Jade over supper one evening, he makes the
first in a series of catastrophic mistakes.
One poor decision
leads to another and soon his whole life begins to unravel. He finds himself
the subject of vitriolic press attacks, a police investigation and so much
public loathing that he starts to wonder if he has any chance of receiving a
fair trial. As the line blurs between his own life and that of the character he
plays on TV, Kevin is forced to confront a lifetime of inadequacy in order to
redeem himself.
The Star Witness is the story of one man’s descent into
disgrace and his journey to rejoin the human race. This pin-sharp satire on the
shallows of modern media culture will keep you laughing, cringing and guessing
until the very last page.
