Don Taylor’s work has been published as a mix of James Ellroy via Dennis Potter and reviewed as equating with Kurt Vonnegut. In this fast-paced black comic opera, Frankie Doyle lives with performance-artist Monique in a trailer parked behind a city pub. He and Monique eke a precarious living from Monique's bizarre stage performances and from working in entertaining the kiddies at various shopping malls. Frankie is haunted by memories of his childhood sweetheart, Gloria, who married someone else. The notoriety of the infamous serial killer the Yorkshire Ripper lurks in the background. The novel comes alive as Gloria's daughter, Candice, now aged 20, returns to the area from other parts ... and from then on nothing is quite the same again ...
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