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Once, only five minutes before, the wedding cake had stood on a vintage wine barrel. The cake, a white one-metre-tall six-tiered edible structure, coated lavishly with a floral freefall of roses in rainbow colours, was now a crumpled mess on the wooden floor of the cavernous vineyard reception hall.
Who doesn't love a wedding, and a gay wedding at that?
Anthony and Heath are looking forward to celebrating their special day at the beautiful Orange Blossoms Vineyard, when an unthinkable incident occurs. Their wedding cake falls victim to an untimely disaster!
How did this happen? And who keeps ordering the white tulips?
The venue manager, Daisy, is not impressed and is pulling out all the stops to ensure this wedding is a success.
Ollie the bartender is still bereft after the break-up of an intense relationship with Silver Fox.
Ollie's mother, Iris, whom he still lives with, has the shock of her life when she inherits something unexpected from her uncle, Jack.
and Gladys, Iris’s mother, continues to grapple with the past as she feels confusion over the love/hate relationship she had with her brother, Jack.
This light-hearted romp and whodunit, with its raft of diverse characters, will please avid readers, literary nerds and hirsute book lovers. If the only thing you take to bed is a book, make sure it's this novel!
''White Tulips & Wedding Cake'' is Sydney based author Jonathan Solomon's first novel.
Paperback, 192 pages, Published October 2017
Author: Jonathan Solomon