'The Garden of Sparkling Delight, ' is a story of both light and shadow. Shadow first comes in the person of a man who prowls around remote villages in Brazil looking though windows at the inmates especially the young girls. There are shadows too in the back streets of the big city where abuse and cruelty go unnoticed. In contrast to this are the love, loyalty and sacrifice of two happy families whose bonds are unbreakable. Both light and shadow eventually mingle bringing hope to bleak and abandoned lives and dignity to those caught in dehumanizing poverty. Cameos of characters from the book can be found on my blog - debvaren.blogspot.co.u