
The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality
- vibrant brilliant in colour noisy with graffiti that approach art bizarre & splendid. An indefinable edge to it adds a spice of danger. There is nothing safe about Portobello.. . Eugene Wren inherited an art gallery from his father near an arcade that now sells cashmere handmade soaps & childrens clothes. But he decided to move to a more upmarket site in Kensington Church Street. Eugene is fifty with prematurely white hair. He is perhaps too secretive for his own good. He also has an addictive personality. But he has cut back radically on his alcohol consumption & has given up cigarettes. Which is just as well considering he is going out with a doctor. For all his good intentions though there is something he doesnt want her to know about.. . Eugenes secret links the lives of a number of very different people
- each with their obsessions problems dreams & despairs. & through it all the hectic life of Portobello bustles on.