Cor blimey Guv'nor!! (Two Women - Martina Cole)

Member Name: loopy101

Product:	Two Women - Martina Cole
Date:	13/08/01 (96 review reads)
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Advantages: Gripping

Disadvantages: The Blurb, A bit far-fetched

This is the 2nd Martina Cole novel I have read. The first being Dangerous Lady, which I thoroughly enjoyed and persuaded me to try another by Miss Cole.

I chose Two Women after reading the back of the cover. Firstly I must advise, DO NOT READ THE BLURB. I found this very misleading and a dead give away to what happens to the main character Susan Dalston. The Blurb states that Sue Dalston meets an inmate in prison and they have more in common than she realises. This meeting of "Two Women" does not actually occur until 3/4's of the way through the novel.

Anyhow, back to the review. The novel follows the harrowing and very disturbing story of Susan Dalston, growing up in the East End with an abusive father and mother, and followed by an increasingly abusive Husband.

Parts of the novel are highly unbelievable, it is very hard to believe how much abuse a human being will put up with for the sake of her children. I also do not believe that you can forgive your family as easily as Sue Dalston does in this novel.

The novel is very violent, and describes acts which some people will find extremely disturbing (as I did), however the novel does get you gripped from the first page. But when I finally reached the end of the novel - I realised I was not impressed at all, and I had just kept on reading in hope that it would get better.

Oh yeah and be careful, you may find yourself slipping into the ol' East End tongue now and again!

Know what i mean!

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