Manor House to Gibson Square

About this book

Ruth Mahoney drove a London black cab for thirty-four years, one of the few women of her generation to earn the green badge. Now sixty-four, she runs a cramped Knowledge school above a bookmaker on Holloway Road, drilling candidates on mopeds through the 320 runs every cabbie must carry in their head. She believes anyone who wants it badly enough can learn London. Then, one September Sunday, she finds a sat nav taped under the driver's seat of her husband Frank's cab. Frank has driven London for forty years. He does not get lost. Across one year of appearances, red lines and night shifts, Ruth is keeping a brilliant pupil on course, teaching her grandson behind her daughter's back, and covering for the man she married. She knows every road in the city. What she is about to learn is where none of them go.