title: The Girl with a Peppermint Taste
author: Launay, Andre
description: The Girl with a Peppermint Taste Set in the London of the mid ‘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’s lives at the time and led to what became known as the ‘permissive society’. 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