Two Women - Martina Cole Reviews

Martina Cole is a very successful novelist, whose books often end up top of the bestseller charts. She is from Essex and her books are always focused around the criminal underworld of London. I was first introduced to Martina Cole when I read The Take which was a really great book and soon after I went and got another of her novels, Two ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Having been so impressed by my first Martina Cole experience it’s hardly surprising that I’ve picked up another book by the same author so soon. It looks as if Martina Cole’s central theme is “strong” East End women, who demonstrate unconditional love for their children and are expert at overcoming adversity. Two Women is written in the ...  Read the complete review

INTRODUCTION I have phases of reading. I always have at least one book on the go, but sometimes reading gets pushed to the back of the queue. First it was the Olympics, then a rather dull Pratchett book that prioritised other things over reading. However, this week, the situation has been reversed. I have been going to bed ...  Read the complete review

Well I am not one for reading books, i more a film person. But on a recent trip to Ibiza, my mum leant me this book!! It looked so big and I thought id never get through all 600+ pages. But come second week of my holidays and i had read the daily paper, my friends were all asleep or reading there own books. I thought i would start reading ...  Read the complete review

~~ The author~~ Martina Cole is never one to skirt around the difficult issues in society, and as such has gained herself a reputation as the “queen of grit” when it comes down to writing books. She deals with prostitution, pimping, violence, abuse, incest, death and poverty, yet the one common link between all her novels ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

This book is very good and difficult to stop reading until you reach the end.All through this book you will be amazed at the strength of charecter shown by the "leading ladies". The experiences described by Martina Cole are plausable, although ficticious will still have you weeping for the injustices suffered by the main charecter. ...  Read the complete review

We recently read this book on ukmother.com and all met up afterwards to review it. I found the book to be really good only problem was that once you'd picked it up it was very difficult to put down. Although the book is fictious it was very easy to relate it to real life and when you sat and thought about it you realised that these things ...  Read the complete review