My Wicked Aunt Leonora

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><STRONG><I style=mso-bidi-font-style: normal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>My Wicked Aunt Leonora</SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-GB> is the author's third novel. She hopes that honesty and humour will appeal to the reader rather than sentiment and nostalgia. </SPAN></STRONG></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN lang=EN-GB><STRONG>The main character Kathryn Shaw has had an unusual and eventful twenty five years of life. She is feisty wired and generous to a fault. After spending most of her childhood in a Care Home she convinces herself that romance is out of the question and steels herself against disappointment. </STRONG></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN lang=EN-GB><STRONG>Unable to sleep from a reoccurring nightmare of drowning she takes on night time work in a bistro just off the King's Road in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags /><st1:City w:st=on><st1:place w:st=on>London</st1:place></st1:City> enabling her to paint seascapes during the day. Sharing a house with three other weird tenants reinforces her suspicions that they also prefer nocturnal activities. </STRONG></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN lang=EN-GB><STRONG>At the age of fifteen after breaking into the Supervisor's office files at the Care Home she discovers evidence of relatives in the form of hippie Godparents living in Newquay.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>They subsequently take her away to a better life where she finds fresh air and freedom to surf with Aussie Luke the Lifeguard.</STRONG></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN lang=EN-GB><STRONG>Kathryn's struggle to find out her true identity is further complicated on her twenty fifth birthday by the appearance of a weird and beautiful previously unknown aunt who believes herself to be a wampire from <st1:place w:st=on>Transylvania</st1:place>. Her aunt is driven by the desire to kill Kathryn to make her immortal and attempts and fails to bite poison or run over her niece in night time car chases around Fulham Battersea Park and The World's End in Chelsea. Kathryn is aided by a lovable Shakespeare-misquoting tramp who she secretly feeds from the bistro. The tramp has a posse of Necromantic Numbskulls to help him deal with wicked Aunt Leonora. Chaos ensues throughout <st1:City w:st=on><st1:place w:st=on>London</st1:place></st1:City> and then Newquay during the Christmas holiday season.</STRONG></SPAN></P>