The legendary lost novel in which fourteen-year-old Preston Wildey-King must choose between his
all-consuming passion for Pepsi Cola and his love for schoolmate Peggy. He walked into the
turbulent super market. There were people everywhere. His eyes swept over the shelves and
stabilised on a large stack of Pepsi-colas. He could almost experience the cool fizzy liquid
descending his parched throat. Written by June-Alison Gibbons when she was only 16 The Pepsi
Cola Addict is considered one of the great works of twentieth-century outsider literature. More
than just a literary curiosity however this tale of a teenager whose passion for a well-known
cola drink threatens to ruin his life is the uniquely vivid expression of a young woman trying
to make sense of the confusing often brutal world she in which found herself. Published in
1982 by a vanity press who took £800 from its young author and gave her only a single book in
return it's thought that fewer than ten original copies still exist in the world. Shortly
after its publication June-Alison and her sister Jennifer would become infamous as The Silent
Twins and find themselves cruelly incarcerated for over a decade in Broadmoor Hospital. This
author-approved edition makes June-Alison Gibbon's remarkable vision widely available for the
first time.
