The Roof Gardens in Fiction
The Derry and Toms Roof Gardens are a significant and recurrent location in the Jerry Cornelius stories written by Michael Moorcock. They are the setting for the opening scenes of the second Cornelius novel, A Cure for Cancer (1971), where Jerry encounters a helicopter firing on a party of tea-drinking old ladies in a satire on the (then contemporary) Vietnam war. The gardens also feature as the setting for a musical and dance extravaganza in Lorna Hill's "No castanets at the Wells". It is also the opening location in Moorcock's comic novel The Chinese Agent, featuring Jerry Cornell.
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