A London Cabbie: In A Year of A London Cabbie Everyone Has A Story

by Mo Mason (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $3.40

  It's a spring morning in Tavistock Square. All around lives large and small are starting their day. Cabbie 42629 sits in his taxi sipping the first cup of tea of the day. He looks at his watch. It is 9.40, time to make for Euston Station and his first pick-up...So begins a charming true story of a year in the life of a London cabbie told through the conversations he has with the passengers travelling in the back of his cab. All human life is here: the loved and lonely, the lucky and unlucky, the happy, the sad, the ordinary folk who make up the bustling life of a big city. All have tales to tell captured here in their own words and through the remarkable photographs the author has taken of them. This gem of a book captures the essence of London and life, leaving the reader uplifted and with a renewed hope in his fellow man. This is the most original and insightful book you'll read all year.