What do you do when you're fat, 14, obsessed with the Catholic Church, with Doing the Right Thing, with scones and sweets, with other boys and their private parts? Well, if you're Benson, you panic and flee, hiding from the flesh as a novice in a monastery.Out of print for over a decade, Sucking Sherbet Lemons was written in answer to the Thatcher government's Clause 28, which in prohibiting the 'promotion' of homosexuality, in effect mandated official homophobia. A comic epic, Sucking Sherbet Lemons is a warm, funny and bold reminder of just how new sexual tolerance is.
Author Biography
Michael Carson was born in Wallasey in 1946 and raised as a devout Catholic. He studied in Wales and Oxford before teaching English as a Foreign Language for twenty years, mostly in the Arab World. His previous books include the novels Friends and Infidels, Coming Up Roses, Stripping Penguins Bare, Yanking Up The Yo-Yo, Demolishing Babel and The Knight of the Flaming Heart.
