Carole Thorpe

A New York Fairy Tale Circa 1980 Carole Thorpe

Nothing ever happened to Hilary Heckmondwicke and she had no expectation that anything ever would. She was not young. She was dull. She was a plain package. Until one lonely Christmas she decided on a plan to change it all. She would go to New York, one last trip and never return. Antonio Luca Cazendare was a native New Yorker. A small man. Not a young man, an unemployed man living in a tiny apartment and the rent was due. Sitting in a coffee bar, he half heartedly contemplated what to do, throw himself in the river, beg... or turn to a life of crimeThen something magic happens.