Drink and fiction

“There was always, sooner or later, bad news that had to be broken, comforting lies to be uttered, pink gins to be consumed to keep misery away.”

This is a light remastered (a phrase lifted from Daniel Kalder) version of something I wrote a few year’s back. Since then I have discovered William Palmer’s brilliant In Love With Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers which I’d urge you to read. It includes Kingsley Amis, Jean Rhys, Flann O'Brien and others. If you want to get a flavour f…