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Martina Cole
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Pages: 576 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0747239320
Pub: Headline
Pub date: 1992-08-06
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 24111
Reader Reviews:
Dangerous lady (0/0 people found this helpful)
Martina Cole is just the best author I have found, it is hard to put her books down. This was the first one she wrote and now has 16 books altogher. Everyone I have read is a real gem, gritty drama and yet filled with heart warming parts as well.
martina coles best (0/0 people found this helpful)
she is an amazing author and this my favourite book of hers, so griity and chilling! it is so true to how they used to live and all the charactersyou can relate to, love it.
Same old, same old (1/1 people found this helpful)
I have quite enjoyed some of Martina Cole's books, but had not read this, her first, until now. In this particular edition she writes a little about her own background, and explains her experience in the chosen small area she chooses to write about IE London/ Essex crime/ prostitution etc scene. This is the most interesting part.
The story, summarised well by other reviewers, is fine, but the characters are unlikeable, and fall into the usual Cole stereotypes. The abortion scene could be quite distressing for the unwary. Generally the book, like all her others, is good light holiday reading, nothing to spend a lot of time thinking about, and makes for a fast, easy read. It's not great literature, but does not pretend to be.
I wasn't especially gripped by the story, and frankly couldn't care less what happens next - "Maura's Game" is on a large pile of books lent to me for summer reading, but I certainly won't be rushing off to read it next.
Borrow it if you can, buy it if you must, but don't expect to find yourself wanting to read it again and again.
Disappointed! (0/0 people found this helpful)
I read 'Ladykiller' sometime ago and absolutely couldn't put that book down so decided to invest in another Martina Cole book and bought this one, her first. To be honest, I was very disappointed in it, probably because it didn't grip me from the first few pages like 'Ladykiller' did, it seemed to spend several chapters setting the scene of the family involved who were mafia types in the East End of London but it didn't hook me and I struggled to even finish the book as I didn't engage with any of the characters and didn't really care what happened to them!
Fantastic (0/0 people found this helpful)
What can i say.This book was fantastic.It really keeps you reading.
This is the first Martina Cole book which i have read and i couldn't put it down.Maura is just a normal teenage girl until one day something changes her life, FOREVER!
I would highly recommend this book to anybody who loves gangsters.
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