Donovan O'Malley Books

The comic adventures of a 39-year-old divorcee doing it HER way"

A SPELLBINDING LONDON SAGA: THE FANTASTICAL MYSTERY OF RITTERHOUSE FAY Fay arrives in London from nowhere, moves into flat 6 at number 13, feels she has "come home" -- but the other tenants feel very differently: RITA IN FLAT 1: "If only she had known then, known for certain, known what Fay was about and acted upon it. Tripped her on the stairs and frightened her away, dropped a flower pot on her head, cut her lying throat! Anything. ANYTHING -- before it was too late!" MRS TAYLOR IN FLAT 3: "Pass on witch," mutters Taylor, as it takes one to know one, "pass on witchy-witch-witch." WHO IS FAY? WHAT DOES SHE WANT? WHAT IS THAT ODD VOICE SHE HEARS? --- THAT SLANGY, TAUNTING, MYSTERIOUS VOICE?!

-- Peggy, a London widow at 42, revisits her life. -- In New York, the 'Queen of Manhattan' surveys her domain. -- In Sydney, Elsie seeks "the truth" and finds it. -- Hollywood legends Joan Crawford and Jean Harlow clash in a chronologically impossible meeting on Pago-Pago.

Set in a small Southern Californian town in 1947, this story is told in the peculiarly haunting voice of a fat, love-starved, white trash homosexual twelve year old, who looks eighteen due to "An acute hormonal unbalance of the highest order which has ran in our family for eons". Danny lives in an often uncaring world amidst the comic torment of his relentless pubescence. His motto is" Persons should be kind, all of them, explicitly we sissies which ain't able to defend theirselves". Danny's desperate search for love and acceptance leads him through a series of comically bizarre adventures. Lemon Gulch is a darkly comic moral tale where kindness is rewarded and evil sternly punished.