The Girl with the Monkey on her Shoulder

"Ribbon around a Bomb" - that is how the French surrealist writer and critic Andre Breton described the Mexican artist and cult figure Frida Kahlo. The novel "The Girl with the Monkey on her Shoulder' is a modern day version of Kahlo's explosive llife. Set in Dublin in Ireland, the story unfolds over a three year period from 1984 until 1987 and tells of the surreal love triangle of artist Lena, her artist husband., Declan and dead art icon Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954). This is the story of obsession: obsession with the past and the volatile passion of love and art, and tells of how that ribbon around the bomb unwound.