Before I go on, I'd like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!
Now for my news. For some time now (more or less from when The Wonderful Demise of Benjamin Arnold Guppy came out), I've been asked if there will be a sequel... and when it's likely to be available. Well, I can now tell you that The Delightful Undoing of Patricia Enid Guppy will be released in June, 2010.
Benjamin is no more, of course, so the sequel follows the exploits of his dear wife, Pat. And here are the details:
‘Well, if you will insist on rummaging around in my drawers, you must expect to be unsettled by what you uncover!’ ~ Patricia Enid Guppy.
Patricia Enid Guppy is in a pickle. With the aid of her husband, Benjamin, she has lied, swindled and blackmailed her way into positions of power and influence, ruining reputations and lives along the way whilst maintaining an outward show of respectability, for most of her eighty years of life. But when Benjamin is silly enough to go and get himself killed, Pat is left to fend for herself.
Now, throughout the town of Sea View, people are beginning to talk, fingers are being pointed, and mud is being thrown... and some of it is finally beginning to stick. Can hosting the Sea View Festival of Culture, with its over-sixties sequinned talent show and display of sculpted sponges, return her to her former state of glory? Or will Pat’s desperate crusade to recapture her past majesty, and the heady days of being crowned Queen of Sea View Parsnip Drive, prove to be the cause of her undoing?
Looking forward to future posts
Posted by: Roly | Thursday, 04 February 2010 at 01:36 PM