Sitting Not So Pretty
My new book 'Sitting Not So Pretty' is now available here:
Blood is said to be Thicker than Water, but, if it is not Family, what happens then? Adoptive daddies, underground numero uno Brian Amberley-Duval and hatchet man Archibald (Archie) Amberley-Duval have no idea what they are undertaking when adopting twins Louisa and Lawrence along with South African born Phineas, and what follows with their Final Curtain - a derelict former cinema brought back to life by its growing audience of unwilling skeletons.
Aided and abetted by the likes of Alfonso Hernández and colleague Thomas Mayhew, ticket sales soar as old scores are settled, and vendettas vanquished. Enter The Jolly Dodger, a houseboat literally “in the pink - and Dickie Smuts, a reincarnated Artful Dodger - and let the show begin.
Adding to the colourful collection of bad guys and their molls, are armless but certainly not harmless South African rumbustious stellar skellum Jengo Botha and Donder, aka Rhino, his loyal lumbering sidekick. South Africa’s answer to Bonnie and Clyde, young Umtali Gweru and Bobbi (Munster) Miller. English grandee-cum-drug lord, Stamford Cripps. The sagacious Lady Louella Loveday and the charming Monsieur Henri Coulon along with a series of strange happenings involving doctored tennis balls, a pair of deceptive pugs, cement and concrete mixers and more.
Prepare to be riveted to your seats.