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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: 51114
Reader Reviews:
Don't be clingy as the storyline changes too much (0/0 people found this helpful)
This is the first novel of Martina Cole's that I have had the pleasure to read. I feel the book was not any old crime novel but made you a part of the storyline by engrossing you on the villains childhood. This I enjoyed very much as it made me feel that I knew the characters as they reached adulthood and embarked on their criminal careers.
Cole delivers a hard hitting novel, not designed to make the reader think but have a certain compassion for the characters in the storyline. I hadn't expected the Ryans downfall towards the end of the story to be so close to home but felt that it was probably an appropriate ending for the story.
I will be reading Maura's game as I enjoyed the harsh character that is known as Maura. All in all I can't think of any bad points to this novel, only that the chapters are too long and left me unable to put the book down during a bedtime read.
Change the record, Martina (1/1 people found this helpful)
This is the fourth Martina Cole novel I've read, and it's becoming a major chore. Having already read three of her books, the formulaic nature of them and the repetativeness is becoming more and more annoying. In fact, I doubt I shall bother to finish this one. As usual the book is packed with anachronisms and lazy research. The characters are the same in every book - the female lead who is stunning but doesn't know it; the male lead who is over six feet tall even at times in history when the average male height in tis country was about 5 foot 7; they have dazzling white, perfect teeth; as usual, there is the hard-working and wise Irish mother; yet again, we have the "hardest man in London" as the main male character... and so the list goes on. Okay, so this was Cole's's first novel, but why have all the others been exactly the same? Enough is enough - reading the same book over and over is a waste of my time, especially when there are far better on my shelves.
Gritty.. (1/1 people found this helpful)
This was such a good read..Maura was dragged up along with her brothers in the midst of poverty, grime and violence..this added the grit to the character, as I am sure is true in reality..
She proves herself at a young age when she is put in charge of her brothers businesses, earning the respect of the thugs of the underworld..
Martina uses rhyming slang which adds to the authenticity..She uses it so well that one has to wonder if she moves amongst them even now! (joke)
Read it, you will like it......
Fantastic! (2/3 people found this helpful)
I previously read the Jump by Martina Cole, and was disapointed with it. This however restored my faith in the Cole, and I really enjoyed it and could not put it down. All that is good about Martina Coles stories are in this book.
Would recomend to anyone who likes to read this sort of thing, very much addictive!
Great characters in a murky world (4/4 people found this helpful)
The development of the characters in this book is wonderful. You know that they all have evil sides to them, but you still can't help liking them (well most of them anyway!)
I've heard stories about the real 60s gangland environment and it was interesting to read a fictional account of what went on and how it changed over the decades. The author very cleverly bought in references to the Krays and Richardsons and the IRA to make the story seem as real as possible.
The grubby descriptions of day to day life were very vivid, particularly when the family were children and struggling to survive. It should be remembered that a lot of people lived like this without all of the criminality.
This was the first Martina Cole book I had read, it won't change my world and isn't a "great" book but it was a book which I keep reading at every small opportunity and I thoroughly enjoyed. I will read more of her books.
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