From the BBC's review of ‘Wonka’:
“… Wonka is the tale of how the starry-eyed young Willy tries to set up a chocolate shop in a fictional city (sort of British, sort of American, sort of mainland European) in a fictional time period (sort of Victorian, sort of mid-20th Century).”
It's reassuring to know that I wasn’t completely off my trolley for choosing to set my story in a fictional world that, incidentally, shares certain similarities with the one described in the review.
Progress on the first chapter of Bk2 carries on, albeit with only sporadic bursts of productivity. It's now past the seven-thousand-word mark, though still lacking a good conclusion. Here's to hoping I can carve out the time to complete it this side of Christmas.