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 Taken for a Ride - Neil Roland
 Taken for a Ride - Neil Roland ... People's Home in the suburban village of Didsbury, where Machester's cotton barons built their Victoria 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 granddaughter 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?Newest Review: ... The third main character in the book is Sylvia's granddaughter (we never get her name or if we did I missed it). She works at ... more ... an estate agents and notices a disturbing trend in the old houses being converted into bed sits or worse still to be knocked down (even if the houses are in the Didsbury Conservation Area) to build blocks of charmless, faceless flats. Meanwhile Sylvia's granddaughter is infatuated by Blue, a photographer who is fascinated by all things endangered and disappearing including the aforementioned Victorian mansions and villas. The book is about the changing face of Didsbury and the disappearance of a culture and a certai...more |
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Taken for a Ride - Neil Roland: Didsbury in delightful detail (1282 words)
by - written on 18/10/06 (Very useful, 135 readings)
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Didsbury, Manchester's premier suburb. My impression of it has always been that it is lovely, leafy and home to the chattering classes. Wander down Wilmslow Road any day of the week and take in the chain bars and coffee shops with Didsbury residents quaffing cappuccinos and nibbling on their goats cheese and sun dried tomato topped ciabatta with roasted pepper and rocket salad. Thanks to Neil Roland and his debut novel "Taken for A Ride" I have been immersed in a very different side to Didsbury I barely knew existed. This is the word of the ever-diminishing Jewish community in Didsbury. The community was founded in the nineteenth century by the Jewish elite who ... Read the complete review
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