I am a writer based in County Kildare, Ireland, an extraordinary setting and in my view a wonderful backdrop for a writer. I write novels across a range of genres and subjects in order to explore the human condition in all of its variety. I believe our lives are essentially an exercise in restriction, with each one of us revealing different degrees of this restriction. Some of us are born healthier, prettier, more intelligent, driven, socially more adept, or more astute in the transaction of our daily business. Some of these traits can be learned, perhaps honed to a fine degree, while others are fixed from birth. What defines us as people is how we respond to these limitations, making us, for example, happy, resigned, persistent, thoughtful, caring, or regretful. It is our interactions with others, as we seek to influence people or events around us, that not only determines these states of being, yet makes us endlessly entertaining for me a writer.
Julian's partner Lucinda, the venomous Jaeger Bomb Queen, has at last met her match. Experiencing disturbing dreams about a witch who is about to take over her life, she consults an ancient Chinese sage who specializes in finding people's 'soul mates.' Dismissing the Chinaman's traditional service (anyone destined to enjoy a special affinity with the Queen must of necessity suffer nightmares of their own), she asks him to find her nemesis instead so she can 'reason' with her. The old man tells her the witch represents justice for her past actions. She will have to discover her whereabouts quickly. But there is no need as Penelope Bolton has already found Julian's address and is coming to pay them both a visit....
Months later, and under Penelope's direct influence, Lucinda has been transformed from County Kildare's premier rancorous, husband-stealing vamp (and a virulent warning to lonely bachelors in lockdown everywhere) into a submissive shadow of her former self. Retired mostly to the kitchen and the odd televised Bake Off, she now cooks Mary Berry cherry cakes and, when they visit, serves tea and bikkies to a confounded Julian and his 'sweetie-pie' mates. Faced with the resulting derision of his friends, Jules isn't sure if he doesn't prefer the old Lucinda.
Meanwhile, Julian and Co. battle through problems of their own. Now the owner of the Dublin Tattler, the city's most popular scandal rag, Julian must confront the subject of one of his magazine's articles, a powerful and dangerous individual whose loathsome business practices put the sub-criminal antics of the former Jaeger Bomb Queen firmly in the shade. With the help of Luca, Derek, and XJ, he could perhaps take him on, but he has Lucinda to worry about as she is beginning to slide from submissiveness into permanent senility...
Título : The Shakespeare Diaries
EAN : 9798223790310
Editorial : James Peart
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