It isn't often that a script writer becomes the hero of the novel, but Erika Cavanaugh doesn't know at the beginning of the book that she is a born script writer - better, a script doctor, able to make the film's dialogue say what the film maker intended.Her discovery of this talent, despite the best efforts of the Sydney Film Board charicatures she shares the story with, is an unexpected delight.Thea Welsh won the 1990 Banjo Award (from the Australian National Book Council) for The Story of the Year of 1912 in the Village of Elza Darzins, and the Australian Broadcasting Commission recorded a serial based on the novel. Recommended to indie film fans, and people who enjoy a wryly ironic story.