Do not allow anyone come near you when you bake sea wolf neither Syracusan nor Italiote, for they do not know how to prepare them decently. But they ruin them and make a mess out of them with cheeses ...

Narrated by Lampo, with a wisecracking Irish turn of phrase standing in for Syracusan street talk, Lennon’s debut is a brilliantly original exploration of the transformative power of art and love.