The book is peppered with characters oddballs, weirdoes, comedians, eccentrics, head cases, prima donnas and hard cases …… and they’re just the drivers! Billy has suicidal thoughts whilst driving. Billy writes with intelligence about his life, and the advice that you really shouldn’t be getting in his cab is sound. He’s prone to violent rages, and his distortion can change whilst driving as time slows down and speeds up again and buildings starts to move. His one love is Jelly, a drug addict, although neither of them realise how much they’ve come to rely on each other.īilly’s life is unravelling fast. He realises he’s possibly a psychotic depressive or even a schizophrenic, and yet he has no one to turn to. He has elevated mood swings and uncontrollable depression, and because his manic states often turn into psychotic episodes, Billy begins to suspect that the label ‘bipolar’ is just a cop-out from the medical fraternity because they don’t know what to do with him. This book is entitled ‘Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind’ for a reason, mainly because it’s the story of Billy, an East London cab driver who’s been diagnosed with Bipolar and who suffers manic episodes while driving his cab around London.
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