The Blue Food Revolution
'The Blue Food Revolution' is the story of a young man and a young woman who travel the world in search of adventure, enlightenment, fun, and possibly each other.
What they experience astonishes them, terrifies them, enthralls them, saddens them and unexpectedly kills one of them.
She was a girl from an alpine village where she tried to murder her sister.
He was a bank clerk from Reading whom her sister tried to murder.
Theirs was a marriage made in heaven…..
….but would they ever meet?
The Story Behind This Book
There is no real story behind the book beyond a conversation with British singer-songwriter Joe Solo about the difficulty of writing about the First World War. This sparked one of the 'Magogia' stories here which satirises war by giving it an office worker ethos with shopping days and flexitime. The magical-realist stories grew from there. This is a book that some people absolutely love and others absolutely loathe. You will know which definitively after the first chapter. In its original paperback version it is literally 'revolutionary' - the 'his' stories read one way, the 'her' stories read the other, and you have to flip the book between the two, reading them in whatever order you like. Sadly this is not possible here.