Mercedes The House of Rainbows Author:Alan Jolis Set in the heady Paris of the sixties, Mercedes & The House of Rainbows is an offbeat love story filled with insatiable Gypsy passions, impossible dreams and incurable romance. Tim, an eight-year-old with a Napolean complex, is the son of an opera diva and a globetrotting movie mogul. Mercedes (Benz, to intimates) is his voluptuous Gypsy nanny, ... more »an aspiring flamenco dancer who dresses in technicolor and seethes with desire for outrageous amour. Tim and Mercedes unleash a no-holds-barred assault on adult conventions. As their love matures from adolescent obsession to raging passion, sparks fly from the House of Rainbows, the mansion they share with movie stars, an IRA terrorist, a Basque who digs for gold in the crocodile-filled cellar and two deaf aunties.« less