Rhona Laski’s life is squeezed into her en suite room in the
Sidney Fleiss Old People’s Home in the suburban village of Didsbury, where
Manchester’s cotton barons built their Victorian villas, and where a
community like no other laid its roots. Meanwhile, her friend Sylvia’s
elegant home ‘Lynton’ must be sold, yet no buyer can be found in this
property hot-spot. Sylvia’s grand-daughter should know why, working as she
does for the estate agency selling the house, but her attentions become focused
on a photographer with a passion for the endangered and overlooked. The queston
is Who is being Taken for a Ride by Whom?
"A beautifully written novel. Original, comic,
moving, pacey and perceptive. Neil Roland has an imaginative and incisive
curiosity about human nature and the eccentricities of character that inform
it." . Jack Rosenthal
"I’m much impressed. The insight into
older people, especially women, is precious and rare. I’m astonished at
the understanding. Every syllable is believable. It says it all.... This book
deserves a wide readership." Bernice Rubens
"I have enjoyed ‘Taken for a Ride’
enormously. It beautifully and funnily captures a vanishing world which I knew
only at third hand, but now sense vividly." Ned Sherrin
Rhona Laski’s life is squeezed into her en suite room in the
Sidney Fleiss Old People’s Home in the suburban village of Didsbury, where
Manchester’s cotton barons built their Victorian villas, and where a
community like no other laid its roots. Meanwhile, her friend Sylvia’s
elegant home ‘Lynton’ must be sold, yet no buyer can be found in this
property hot-spot. Sylvia’s grand-daughter should know why, working as she
does for the estate agency selling the house, but her attentions become focused
on a photographer with a passion for the endangered and overlooked. The queston
is Who is being Taken for a Ride by Whom?