title: Ruby and the Stone Age Diet
author:  Martin Millar 
description: In this charming but aimless tale, the everyday harshness of drugs, heartbreak, and poverty in London's gritty south side mingles casually with a series of hallucinatory vignettes that may or may not be the result of unknowingly-ingested LSD. Appearances from gods and goddesses, space aliens, and hostage-taking Post Office robbers spin out alongside the unnamed narrator's humdrum day-to-day: lovesickness, finding a place to crash, and plans for self-improvement devised by his roommate and best friend, Ruby. Unfortunately, none of the goings-on have much effect on the protagonist, who takes personal obstacles and sci-fi plot developments equally for granted. What shines through are the personalities of and relationships among the main characters, whose friendships bloom amidst the disorienting blight of the real and unreal world, spiking Millar's gritty period fantasy with unexpected shots of sweetness. Though winning, the relationship between our bumbling narrator and the assertive but fragile Ruby serves a static plot that follows one unexplained upheaval after another. END
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  THE GOOD FAIRIES OF
  
  NEW YORK
  
  Martin Millar
  
  (V1.0 proof done by scanner. My OCR program works with MS Word. Ergo that is
  how I release them.)
  
  Also by Martin Millar
  
  Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation
  
  Lux the Poet
  
  Ruby and the Stone Age Diet
  
  First published in Great Britain in 1992 by Fourth Estate Limited 289
  Westbourne Grove London Wll 2QA
  
  Copyright © 1992 by Martin Millar
  
  The right of Martin Millar to be identified as the author of this work has
  been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
  1988.
  
  A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN
  1-85702-076-6
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
  transmitted, or stored in a retrieval system, in any form or by any means,
  without permission in writing from Fourth Estate Limited.
  
  Typeset by York House Typographic
  
  Printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Limited, Reading
  
  'My main concern in life, ' said K