Book Jacket
Jacob Winter is a man of principle. Unequivocally devoted to his wife Laura and their son Max, Jacob does not drink, does not own a television--and as a fiercely uncommercial author, he simply does not believe in the necessity of a plot. But Jacob's principles are put to the test when he catches Laura in bed with a psychiatrist--with predictably violent results--and finds himself bailed out of jail by a mysterious woman from his past.
For a man who disdains extravagant storylines, getting caught up in the strange world of Alix Callahan, fiery lesbian ethnobotanist, and her bisexual partner, a sultry Americanised rainforest Indian called July, is a shock to the system. And when he ends up at Green Girls, their tropical florist's shop on the coast of Maine--complete with hallucinogenic herbs and a mini-jungle full of deadly poison-arrow frogs--Jacob finds himself tumbling headlong into a real-life plot he could never have imagined.
Green Girls is a masterpiece.
Synopsis
When struggling writer and borderline schizophrenic Henry Winter catches his wife in bed with his psychiatrist, the resulting fracas could result in him losing his son Max - and what's left of his sanity. And when his lawyer (paid for by a mysterious benefactor) turns out to be Alix Callahan, a firebrand lesbian poetess now living with her exotic bisexual lover July in a tropical florist's called Green Girls, his chances aren't looking too good. Especially when the tantalising July reveals a history of violence and sexual jealousy that landed her Colombian Indian husband in a maximum security jail in Florida. But Pantera is about to be busted out, and Henry is soon going to find himself with a leading role in a conspiracy of sex, drugs and psychosis that could have come straight out of one of his novels...
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