Dave Ingram
driving instructor
Patient; calm is a skill
Driving Lessons
After her brother is injured in a crash, Nisha has avoided cars for years. When her mother needs regular hospital visits, she finally learns to drive, fails her first test and passes the second with a quiet determination she did not know she had.
Planned · not started yet
Practical life skills Second chances Living with uncertainty City life Lightly witty Tense
The premise
After her brother is injured in a crash, Nisha has avoided cars for years. When her mother needs regular hospital visits, she finally learns to drive, fails her first test and passes the second with a quiet determination she did not know she had.
The protagonist
Nisha Ramdin-Cole — 37-year-old nervous learner driver
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Dr Sophie Kent
road-safety researcher
Analytical; hazard perception saves lives
Raj Bhatia
insurance broker
Commercial; explains what drives premiums
How the story moves
Lessons, a failed test and a pass over eight months; the final scene is Nisha driving her mother to hospital on her own.
What readers take away
- The Highway Code
- Hazard perception
- Manoeuvres
- Driving in different conditions
- The practical driving test
- Insurance costs and factors
- Managing driving anxiety
- Driving after passing
- Plan lessons with an instructor
- Drive on motorways after passing
- Choose a first car
- Use black-box insurance
The books
- 1Theory Planned
- 2Lessons Planned
- 3The test Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.