Just finished reading the above novel. I really enjoyed this novel as an easy read and something a little different. The search for the black azalea captured the imagination as to whether it was actually a flower or something else. The interaction between the characters was good, and there were twists and turns along the way which kept me reading. Enrico the baker, seemed to be blamed for most things along the way so it was good when he was let off the hook at the end! The descriptions of the surroundings were good without becoming too long or boring, while the characters seemed to become real, the bumbling policemen, the villain and so on. All in all I enjoyed reading this offering by Trevor P Kwain and would read more of his novels in the future.
Enrico LoTrova always wanted to move to London and open his own bakery. When he finally lands a spot at 9/b High Street in Wimbledon Village, it is a dream come true, but when he thinks his career is about to take off, a series of unfortunate and mysterious events are set into motion that will drag him to the depths of the town’s unknown history. From legendary flowers to secret conspiracies, Enrico cannot resist his curiosity and Wimbledonians soon realise their new Italian neighbour is more than just a baker.
Trevor P. Kwain is a child of the Eighties. He belongs to the video generation and multi-media lifestyle that is slowly degenerating speech and text of today. Yet, he is no knight in shiny armour to defend the old way of writing. He simply wants to bridge the written word with the dormant imagination in people's minds. An eclectic mind may find the third way, the third alternative, in a bi-dimensional reality torn between yesterday and tomorrow.
