Based around an independent pub, the Daffodil Lion, and its eccentric patrons, this selection of short stories are set in the post-punk era of the 1980s. The collection starts with dancing to the dead kennedys, about the last chaotic gig of battling local punk bands, and ends with the five commandements, the poignant story of a young mum forced into homelessness. In between, retired insurance executives cross paths with travelling potters, a pie salesman mysteriously melts away into a blizzard, a hippy gardener makes friends with an ageing actress and her telepathic cat, an unemployed ironmonger goes berserk at a nuclear protest, and a drunk alpacca runs wild at a surreal country wedding. All in all, anyone who's ever danced berserkly to a New Order twelve inch will enjoy this alternative take on a desperate decade that has inexplicably become fashionable again!