Martina Cole's Two Women (Two Women - Martina Cole)

Member Name: Mrs-LT

Product:	Two Women - Martina Cole
Date:	25/01/09 (86 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Gripping, gritty, fantastic

Disadvantages: None

This is a heavily biased review as in my eyes Martina Cole can do no wrong....but that in itself says a lot about how good she is as an author.

This was one of her earlier books - and this is her at her gritty best. No punches are pulled and in true Martina style it will turn your stomach as it deals heavily with rape, domestic violence and incest.

You are drawn into the life of battered and abused wife (formerly battered, abused and raped daughter) Susan Dalston as she tries against all odds to protect her beloved children from the monster she married in a bid to flee her own horrific childhood home. Her husband Barry ends up dead at her hands in a brutal and frenzied attack, and the book begins in the Prologue with Susan in a prison van on her way to court. As the tale unravels you are gripped with every page, drawn into her desperate plight and willing her to survive.

It is a unique talent that Martina Cole possesses in the way she writes from the viewpoint of her characters that makes you feel empathy for some of even the wosrt acts committed. You understand what the characters are motivated by in their violence which makes them far more real. Sometimes when reading this with tears streaming down my face, I have to remind myself that it is only fiction!

A real page-turner and one not to be missed by any Martina fan - I have read it countless times and am gripped from cover to cover each time.

Summary: If you haven't discovered Martina Cole yet, now is the time to start!