Based in Port Isaac, Cornwall, the client for designing and building a new Seaside
garden is a retired British star of Navy war films, Johnny Stern, who thinks he is far more famous and
important than is good for him.
The
gardeners stumble across a store used by a gang of modern smugglers (of exotic,
illegal and dangerous pets) when exploring some old mines and caves. Maya, who
wants to find out more about local superstitions and mythology, studies a
female saint, St. Endellienta, who went around caring for animals until being
cruelly set upon by one of the farmers. Needless to say she finds herself
emulating the saint’s story.
As the date of the Village Flower Show approaches the vicar’s
increasingly irrational and irritable behaviour causes concern. It transpires
he is using an old mine underneath his allotment to gain access to vandalise
his neighbour’s carrots. He enlists some small boys to reach the narrower
openings in the mine workings. The boys’ parents, neighbours and friends become
concerned as threats, accusations and blackmail lead to both comic and
real-life conflict.
Available at all usual outlets (Print 2017; ebook due for release 2019).
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