Pinner BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Paul A. Mendelson reimagines his own honeymoon in enchanting new romance.

A middle-aged couple, whose marriage is on the rocks, return to Seville for a ‘second honeymoon’—a gift from their children—only to encounter their younger selves on their first honeymoon 30 years earlier!

The older, sadder couple recognise their younger selves, but the younger couple, so newly in love, only have eyes for each other.

No one leaps through time. Each couple remains in their own era, yet somehow they can encounter and relate to each other in this timeless, magical city. When the shock wears off, a plan begins to form—at least in the mind of the older man. Can meddling with their past, starting right there in Seville, give the fractured pair any hope of a future? Or—more dangerously—will it wreak untold havoc on the present?

Seville is a bittersweet romantic comedy where past, present, and future mingle, clash, and resonate. A tale full of tension, poignancy, reflection and, of course, magic.

“My wife and I happily honeymooned in Seville, Spain during the incredible religious ceremonies of Semana Santa (Holy Week),” explains the author, Paul A. Mendelson. “When it was our 25th anniversary my mother kindly offered us a little trip somewhere and we decided to return to the wonderful place in which we had spent our honeymoon. Everything was exactly the same in this mystical, magical, unchanging city – on that very same Holy Week – except that we stayed in slightly more salubrious lodgings.

As we were walking around and watching the stunning religious processions, I said to my wife, ‘wouldn’t it be incredible if we were to meet our younger selves here?’ When she just rolled her eyes, I knew I had a winner!

I came home and immediately wrote it up as a radio play, my second for BBC Radio 4. (I was already a creator of very successful TV sitcoms – May to December, So Haunt Me, My Hero etc) Gratifyingly the radio play was very well-received and indeed repeated several times. So I thought I should expand it into a novel, as I felt I had a lot more to say and far deeper to burrow into the relationships.”