From the Author's The Idiot Heart is based on a true story. A small remote convent of nuns in Belgium (I think) was going broke. But the place sat on a large, valuable piece of property. So secretly, the nuns sold the convent and all the land to a developer. Then they ran away with the money to someplace warm and sexy like Monaco or Mallorca. An producer gave me the clippings about them and said write a movie about this.
Author
Jonathan Carroll (b. 1949) is an award-winning American author of modern fantasy and slipstream novels. His debut book, The Land of Laughs (1980), tells the story of a children’s author whose imagination has left the printed page and begun to influence reality. The book introduced several hallmarks of Carroll’s writing, including talking animals and worlds that straddle the thin line between reality and the surreal, a technique that has seen him compared to South American magical realists. Outside the Dog Museum (1991) was named the best novel of the year by the British Fantasy Society, and has proven to be one of Carroll’s most popular works. Since then he has written the Crane’s View trilogy, Glass Soup (2005) and, most recently, The Ghost in Love (2008). His short stories have been collected in The Panic Hand (1995) and The Woman Who Married a Cloud (2012). He continues to live and write in Vienna.
