Taken for a Ride [Paperback] Neil Roland - signed

Item Condition: Collectible; Very Good

Signed - Neil Roland

A beautifully written novel, Original, comic, moving. pocey
and perceptive. Neil Roland has on imaqinative and incisive
Curiosity about human nature ond the eccentricities of
character that inform it.
Jeck Rosenthal
I'm much impressed. The insight into older people,
especially women, is precious and rare I'm estonished at
the understanding. Every syllable is believable. it soys it
all. This book deserves a wide reodership.
Bernice Rubens
I have enjoyed Token for a Ride enormously. Tt beautifuly
and funnily coptures a vonishing 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 villoge of
Didsbury, where Manchester's cotton barons built their
Victorian villes, and where a community lke no other loid its
roots. Meanwhile, her friend Sylvia's elegont home Lynton
must be sold. yet no buyer can be found in this property
hot-spot. Sylvia's granddoughter should know why, working
as she does for the estate ogency selling the house, but her
attentions become focused on a photogrepher with a possion
for the endangered and overlooked. The questionis Whe is
being Tken for a Ride by Whom?
Neil Roland is a law graduate living in Didsbury. A Rough Guide
author since 1996, he is a freelance writer for The Independent
on Sunday and The Sunday Times and a photogropher whose work
is exhibited frequently. Taken for a Ride is his first novel