An accomplished debut, The Flower Boy is the tragically romantic story of people from two cultures, one ruling the other, and the human passions that defy and nearly overcome social taboos. In the colonial society of 1930s Ceylon, the separation between servant and master is clearly drawn. Young Chandi, however, knows that the baby born to his mother’s mistress will be his friend. And, indeed, their friendship blossoms in the lush gardens of the tea plantation on which they live. Many, English and Ceylonese, are troubled by the friendship, but the English planter is charmed by the children’s bond, and ultimately by Chandi’s mother, Premawathi. But the world encroaches on their Eden. Beautifully observed, compellingly plotted, The Flower Boy is a compassionate novel of a lost world and those who struggled to hold on to it.

Shunned at school because he sprouts flowers every full moon, Rink Bowagon makes a special pair of shoes for a classmate who is able to appreciate his unique abilities.

A man moves into a dark, colorless town, and brings with him flowers and color that affect all of his neighbors.

The Flower Boycelebrates the quiet child. You know the ones - they rarely speak in class, they don't have a big circle of friends but you should never write them off...

On waking up on his twenty-first birthday, Jamie has nothing planned for the day except to spend the day with his dying mother in the hospital. Before he realises it, fate has other cruel plans for him. Almost being killed in a car crash and finding the love of his life, he is arrested for murder and has an assassin who has been hired to kill him on his tail. All alone, with no one to turn to, will Jamie get out of jail in time to see his mother one last time? Will he find the man responsible for all the misfortune hes been having lately? Jamie needs to find the man who holds the answers if he is to have a normal life. Will our Flower Boy finally find his calling in life?

The Flower Boy is a deeply moving and enchanting novel - a story of love, town secrets and family divisions. Lizzie Buckwater is born on a stormy night into a household nestled in Glencairn, on the lush tea estates of 1930s Ceylon. As Chandi, a little servant boy, plays in the mud outside on this fourth birthday, he promises himself that the English baby will become his best friend. He christens her Rose Lizzie after the flowers he loves, and the bright, perceptive boy soon forges the most important friendship of his life. As Chandi and Rose Lizzie's closeness grows, so their two families - English and Ceylonese, master and servant - become entwined. And with the approach of Ceylonese independence the whole idyll faces destruction.