The Brondesbury Tapestry Av Helen Harris

<P>Six women and one man gather in a community centre in North London for a life writing class run by Dorothy, their uniquely unqualified teacher. They have urgent stories to tell and, as they recount them, they discover they are connected in unexpected ways.<br><br>There is Iris, eighty years old but still with a taste for younger men; Pearl single-handedly bringing up her grandson, enigmatic hooded Kai; elusive Renee; Sabine whose happy Belgian childhood may not have been as happy as it sounds; mixed-up Esther; Edgar whose winning ways charm them all and of course there is Enid, the retired art teacher, who insists on telling her story in pictures not words.<br><br>Illustrated with sharp line drawings by illustrator Beatrice Baumgartner-Cohen, <I>The Brondesbury Tapestry </I>is a quirky, perceptive look at a group of people who feel the modern world has left them behind but who have decided that they will still have the last word.</P>