Dimensions
129 x 200 x 20mm
Growing up on a commune in the sixties, Coorg learns to love peace and brown rice, abide by the lessons of the I Ching, accept his mother's indifference and respect the feelings of cabbages. He also bears the burden of destiny - from birth he has been acclaimed as the new messiah.
Then Merlin bursts on to the scene in the form of Marc Bolan. Temporarily downgraded to messiah-in-waiting at the age of six, Coorg finds worse is to come when his strictly Catholic grandparents abduct him to Ireland.
In this vibrant and immensely engaging novel, Frank Roman depicts the delusions of faith with infectious humour, and tells the poignant story of a boy who grows up trying to fit in but somehow always being the odd one out, caught in the collision between the old ways and the permissive modern age.
