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2000s: In Tinderbox Lane, in the depths of Barnes, there’s some tarot business going on…
The Prime of Ms Dolly Greene
What you need to know before your trail
In the heart of South West London, just a short stroll from the Thames, lies an enclosed and overgrown bike path and a single row of cottages. Foremost among Tinderbox Lane’s hotchpotch of loyal residents is professional Tarot reader, Dolly Greene: divorced and permanently broke, she shares her tiny house with her 21-year-old daughter Pippa.
When, one stiflingly hot summer’s day, Dolly reads the cards for the hedonistic Nikki, her usually professional patter is interrupted by a sudden vision – a flash of Nikki’s face, covered in blood and bruises.
A few days later, when the body of a battered woman is washed up by Chiswick Bridge, Dolly is haunted by the belief that Nikki’s time may have come . . . but can she be sure? And how far is Dolly prepared to go to act on her intuition?
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TinderBox Lane
Ah a hotchpotch of neighbours and twisting and turning alleyways in this part of London. There’s a flair of another world too – Maurice Bousquet is originally from St Lucia, and can cook a rather nice curry. The rest of them all seem like hard-working nice people and the sense of community is clear.
Dolly Green lived halfway down a bike path, in a teeny tiny mews house, in the depths of the depths of outer southwest London; a part of London between two other parts, surrounded by ex-council houses, mostly: a corner of London so like and so unlike any other that it didn’t really have a name. You couldn’t get a car down Tinderbox Lane.
Tarot Cards
Solving the murder through the cards? What of a woman in the local community of Barnes who is known for “That funny magic business” who tries to read the future both good and bad of local people.
“Nobody visits a Tarot reader down a bike track in the depths of of the depths of outer southwest London unless they’re feeling pretty damned trouble about something, whether they know it or not.” Even Tesco who claims that “Every little helps, doesn’t deliver down this lane!
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Prime of Ms Dolly Greene
Destination: Barnes, London Author/Guide: E V Harte Departure Time: 2000s
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