

He will be joined by the British crime author Mark Billingham and the Chinese writers Chan Koonchung and Bi Feiyu. Sparks, who is in Dubai for the first time taking part in the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, will tomorrow morning host a film panel discussion entitled "From Page to Screen" at the InterContinental hotel in Dubai Festival City. The Lucky One is the latest novel by the international bestselling American writer Nicholas Sparks, to be adapted by Hollywood for an April release. The journey he then embarks on changes his life. At home, he cafnnot seem to shake off an overwhelming sense of curiosity and determination to locate the subject of the photograph. While in Iraq, Thibault finds a picture, covered in dirt, of a mysterious smiling woman and believes it brings him luck. Logan Thibault, a US marine, finally returns home after serving three tours in Iraq.Īlthough he is safely back in familiar territory, his spirit is wounded following the death of friends on the battlefield and the difficulty of readjusting to the so-called "real" world.
