Charity Sucks

One London Restaurateur Thinks So Anyway

Photo by British Library on Unsplash

There’s a scene in my novel ‘The Last Summer of the Water Strider’ when the guru-figure in the novel, Uncle Henry, takes his young charge, Adam, to a New Age fair in Bristol. Adam is both suspicious and admiring of Henry, who is a rogue Zen practitioner and all-purpose hippy/mystic ( this is set in the 1970s, a high…