The Girl With a Peppermint Taste

The Girl with a Peppermint TasteSet in the London of the mid #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;60s, with anti-nuclear marches, flower power and rebellious pop concerts as backdrop, the story concerns a respectable middle aged company director who falls hopelessly in love with an uninhibited, sexy, disrespectful but very bright East End hippy. As he mixes with her friends - student politicians, revolutionaries and madcap musicians, whose behaviour and language shock him profoundly - his values and judgements are turned inside out and upside down till he abandons the security of his family and business for the wild freedom of a very different way of life. It is an insight into the break up of the different British class values which ruled people#xE2;#xAC;"s lives at the time and led to what became known as the #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;permissive society#xE2;#xAC;". When first released this book was serialised in the Sun newspaper in the UK and was a bestseller in hardback and paperback both in the UK and USA