BE THOU THE RAINBOW: Tales from a Bohemian bar.

In a quiet corner of Prague's Old Town, on a narrow street rarely found by tourists, stands the Kavárna Martinská-a bar where time loosens its grip, and the past shares a table with the present whilst they wait for the future to join them for a drink. The beer never stops flowing, and the regulars never stop drinking it-they are a gloriously mismatched crowd of dreamers, eccentrics and expatriates who have long since misplaced the plot and aren't in any hurry to find it again. Fractured, tender, and sometimes bruised, here in the shade of a rainbow flag, their stories unfold-stories of the storms that batter ordinary lives and the unexpected rainbows that sometimes follow. Bar-room philosophies, confessions and dreams of future love and happiness overlap with memories of ill-fated affairs, and shadows from the past lurk behind the fragile freedoms of the present day. Be Thou the Rainbow is a tale of a friends in a world that too often forgets how to be kind, of the solace to be found in unlikely alliances, and the strange, stubborn hope that keeps us all coming back for one more drink.

Pagina's: 399, Paperback, Independently published