Soft!By: Rupert Thomson Former bouncer Barker Dodds wants nothing more than to flee his violent past in his native Plymouth for an uncertain new existence as a barber in London's colorful East End. Waif like Glade Spencer drifts through life as a waitress at a fashionable Soho restaurant, a devoted daughter to her estranged, caravan dwelling father, and a long distance girlfriend to an unpredictable American lawyer. And ambitious soft drink branch manager