The last weeks of 2007 are life-changing for Victoria and Franklyn. Victoria is on a year-long work assignment in New York. Franklyn is made redundant from his long-term employment.
Finding no new job in London, Franklyn becomes the caretaker of a dilapidated woodland cottage on Exmoor. His sole companion is Angus, the late owner’s spaniel.
Weeks into his task Franklyn discovers an extraordinary puffball growing fast in the woodland.
Early in 2009, Victoria and Franklyn are reunited. He cannot bring himself to tell Victoria of the horrific puffball events on Exmoor in 2008. She is promoted to establish 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…
PUFFBALL PARADOX was published in March 2024 and is available as an e-book or paperback on Amazon
Chip Tolson 