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...