Publishers synopsis:
With the same romance and drama that put his Griffin and Sabine saga on the NY Times best seller list for over 100 weeks, Nick Bantock presents an unforgettable story of one young woman’s journey to self-discovery. Ana, a striking young dancer, is promised in marriage to a man she doesn’t love. No one understands her reluctance to wed. After all, isn’t Marco a fine man? Won’t the union of their two families benefit her people? And yet…Guided by her heart, and forces she does not yet recognize, she flees to the exotic port of Serona in search of Felix Bulerias, a man reputed to have the answers she seeks. But along the way, the attentions of four unusual men threaten to lure Ana in directions that she could never have fathomed—and lead her down a path of sensuality and understanding beyond any she could ever have imagined. Bantock’s compelling narrative is accompanied by over 200 masterful collages that form a frieze throughout. Brimming with myth and intrigue.


 

From Nick
Windflower is a different kind of book for me—partly because it’s a 216 page novel and partly because the images play a different role to books like Griffin and Sabine. Running along the bottom quarter of every page of Windflower is  ‘a stream of unconsciousness’. Not an illustration of the events on the given page but a flow of memories and foresights that function much the way that our dreams and subconscious fantasies do. Windflower is laced with a classical mythology that casts a bitter- sweet romantic vision of heaven and earth. I had the original idea for Windflower, maybe five or six years ago, but only really started to bring it to life when I re-met an old friend Edoardo Ponti. He and I worked for a while on the story as a film script but soon it became clear that it was going to be much easier if I wrote the book before Edoardo tackled the movie. I’m done! Now it’s his turn!