Literary dairy export

Sarah-Kate Lynch has forsaken editorship of New Zealand Woman’s Weekly in favour of a career in fiction, with a first novel Blessed Are the Cheesemakers. While Guardian reviewer Helen Falconer finds the book “somewhat over-processed,” film company Working Title (Bridget Jones’ Diary, Four Weddings and a Funeral) wasted no time in buying the rights to what they see as cheese’s answer to Chocolat. Fondue anyone?