This is my third novel, due to be self-published in March 2024.

The last weeks of 2007 are life-changing for Victoria and Franklyn. Victoria is sent on a year-long work assignment in New York. Franklyn is made redundant from his employer of 18 years.

Finding no employment in London, Franklyn is tasked with being the caretaker of a dilapidated woodland cottage on Exmoor, inherited from a great-aunt by a friend of a friend met in a pub. His sole companion on Exmoor is Angus, the late owner’s dog. Weeks into his task, Franklyn discovers an extraordinary puffball growing fast in the woodland.

Early in 2009, Victoria and Franklyn are reunited. He cannot make himself tell Victoria of the horrific puffball events on Exmoor in 2008. She is promoted to set up and run a London-based Anglo-American company.

The couple’s lives in London and on Exmoor combine over the next few years. Victoria’s company thrives, Franklyn builds a career as a landscape artist, they marry, their son Ivan is born and Angus remains an essential part of their family.

Then the puffballs take their revenge.