Love on the NHS (48 page)

On a final note, if there is one thing that this novel achieves I hope it encourages restaurants, takeaways and supermarkets to take some responsibility and start offering proper choices to people who follow special diets. Awareness of gluten- and dairy-free eating and of the specific carbohydrate diet is growing all the time. And that is a good thing. People need to know as much information as possible to make an informed decision about what they eat. If this novel sells well, purveyors of food will no longer have an excuse to not make a concerted effort to accommodate people like me; people who need to eat gluten-free and dairy-free diets and other special diets. To continue to offer so few choices on the menu and to not bother to label dishes gluten- or dairy-free, or even know what is in a dish being served, is unacceptable discrimination. People with food intolerances deserve to be able to eat out on a social occasion as much as anyone without having to create a fuss and struggle to find somewhere to eat. It is a very serious matter really - a matter of life and death. More people die each year from unwise food they have eaten than from murders, suicides and accidents combined.

M. F.

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--Before this novel I released my first book called 15 Minutes of Fame. It is a collection of fifteen short stories and poems that is available on Amazon Kindle. I published it under my first name Ashley Formby, one I have since dropped - it is quite embarrassing when people become confused about your gender.

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