Gridlock (novel) Gridlock (novel) Gridlock is a 1991 novel by Ben Elton. The novel depicts a near-future London in which traffic congestion has reached almost critical levels, such that accidents in a few key places could bring the entire city's traffic network to a halt. The government is aware of the problem and plans a major new road-building program to relieve the pressure. The alternative, heavy investment in public mass transport systems such as railways, is ignored because it clashes with the government's ideology. The author argues that this is a highly misguided policy since, in his view, more roads have historically
Paula (novel) Paula's treatment and of Allende's life, sometimes overlapping with the content of Allende's first novel, "The House of the Spirits". Paula died on December 6, 1992. She was survived by her husband, Ernesto Diaz, and other family members. Paula (novel) Paula is a 1994 memoir by Isabel Allende. She intended to write a straightforward narrative about the darkest experience of her own life. But the book is a tribute to her deceased daughter Paula Frías Allende, who fell into a porphyria-induced coma in 1991 and never recovered. Isabel Allende wrote "Paula" while tending to her daughter, Paula Frías Allende, who