Skollie, saint, scholar, hippest of hippies, imperfect musician with a perfect imagination, Syd Kitchen was, like all great artists, born to enrich his art and not himself. Plagued by drugs, alcohol and depression, too much of an outlaw to be embraced by record companies, he frequently sold his furniture to cover production costs of his albums, seduced fans at concerts and music festivals worldwide with his dazzling Afro-Saxon mix of folk, jazz, blues and rock interspersed with marvellousl...

Love can make us fly or make us crazy.Set against the backdrop of a painter’s life, this lyrical novel is an exquisitely crafted meditation on the disintegration of a marriage and its turbulent aftermath. With unusual and sometimes brutal honesty, the author tells the story of two complex, wounded souls bound together by an addictive passion.Sensual, courageous and ultimately compassionate, here is a dispatch from the frontlines of a hard-fought relationship, and from the u...