This a love story. A love story about Rosemary and George, Rosemary and Kate, Rosemary and Kate and the Lido, and Kate and Jay. Rosemary has been swimming at the Lido for 80 years, and when it is threatened with closure and sale to a big corporation that wants to make it into a tennis court and gym complex for residents of the big new apartments that they are going to build, Kate and Rosemary team up to try and stop it and pull in many of the local Brixton people, who you learn about through the book. Eventually Kate's editor pulls a cat out of the bag and helps to win a reprieve.
This from Bartholemews Large Map of London dated 1994. Note the Lido in Brockwell Park.
Comments from OL:
As for The Lido – GOLD STAR for the 87yr old heroine (note, I became one up on her last week)
As for the rest, I’m afraid the word was Tosh. How could any one believe that an advertisement on the bottom of a pool seen only from the sky would outbid a developer ? Predictable and fairly readable up to that point.
Must admit that I am buying the paperback for my daughter-in-law who is a lido enthusiast.
In general the mark was 6 because it was an easy, feelgood read.
