The Incredible Reversing Peppermints by Paul Adshead
Paul Adshead's funniest story explores contradictions of human nature and language, and the nature of opposites. Can Dr Tapioca's Incredible Reversing Peppermints solve all of Patrick Marrow's problems? Will they make his dog obedient, his father pleasant, his mother happier and his baby sister less of a nuisance? Or will things go horribly and unexpectedly wrong?