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Martina Cole
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Pages: 640 (Paperback)
ISBN: 075535057X
Pub: Headline
Pub date: 2009-04-30
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1938
Editorial Review:
Neither the elegant middle-class Matilda nor the downtrodden Susan are precisely what they appear to be: when they meet in a prison cell, both are notorious husband killers. Matilda's appeal is imminent. She claims severe provocation in the shape of endless beatings from the husband she stabbed while Susan hardly bothered to defend herself in court. Most of Two Women is a flashback--a powerful venue for portraying domestic violence and criminal manners. Susan's murder of Barry resulted from years of brutality and sexual abuse by him and his partner in low-level gangland violence, her father Joey. "Joey would set people up and Barry execute the acts of violence and robbery, leaving Joe with the wedge and the kudos of being number one bailiff to the criminal community, while at the same time earning off the people stupid enough not to have him as their protection".
Martina Cole is darkly funny about Christmasses and weddings ruined by alcoholic mayhem; she is also good on the ways in which women support each other and let each other down--Susan gets little help from her mother or her grandmother and yet finds a best friend in the most unlikely of places. Martina Cole brings to her novels all the emotional force of her best television scripts. This is a vivid picture of the working-class criminal world in which everyone is supposed to live by a code and where that code is broken by any person violent enough to get away with it. --Roz Kaveney
Reader Reviews:
Two Women by Martina Cole (0/0 people found this helpful)
This book is an excellent read. Strong character writing and powerful subject matter. Based on East End gang families back in the 70's. Violence, domestic violence and incest spanning two generations. The book has now been adapted for stage. The play previewed at Stratford Royal Theatre East London and was excellent.
One of her best! (0/0 people found this helpful)
I really enjoyed this one of Martina's, I have read about 6 of her books and would probably say this is one of the best, I read it in 3 days, couldn't put it down. I hope she does some more of this quality again sometime soon.
Martina Cole Two Women (0/0 people found this helpful)
I ordered this book to give to my daughter as one of her many christmas presents. I found the book to be in excellent condition and she will ever know I ordered it from amazon.com. Will definitiely use this site again.
A un-puttable down read. !! (0/0 people found this helpful)
Martina Cole certainly knows how to keep you entertained , a book like all of her books I have read is one good un-puttable down read from start to finish .
great read (0/0 people found this helpful)
not my usual type of book but having watched the take i thought i would give it a go and i read the first 100 pages in the first day. i would highly recomend this book to anyone the plot is great and you really feel for susan the main character and her family. once picked up hard to put down.
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