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Imelda Dooley is scared. Really scared. She's played hard and fast and now she's been caught. She's pregnant and now she's on her own. Her father, not a man to mess with, will see that somebody pays for this. And it's not going to be her. So Imelda Dooley tells a lie. A lie that literally causes murders. When Mary Dooley's husband is killed in the night's events, she knows she must graft to keep the family afloat. And graft she does, becoming a name in her own right. But she still has to watch her daughter's life spiral into a vicious, hate-fuelled cycle of drugs and prostitution. Caught up in the carnage that is Imelda's existence are Mary's adored grandchildren, Jordanna and Kenny. Pretty little Jordanna isn't yet three and she already knows far too much. All she can do is look after her baby brother, Kenny, and try not to draw unwanted attention to herself. Set in the East End of London from the tail-end of the seventies up until the present-day, THE BUSINESS is a tale of drugs, prostitution and a young girl's fight for survival -- against all the odds.
Headline Publishing Group (United Kingdom) | |
2008 | |
9780755328659 | |
Hardback - 544 Pages |
Average rating (6 reviews)
Love her but finding it harder to enjoy
lorrae | 18/11/2008 | See all lorrae's reviews (1) »
I have read every one of Martina's books, and loved them all apart from 'The Take' it really got on my nerves, just going over the same thing over and over again. In fact at one stage I had to check which page number as I thought I was reading the same page again and again. Martina your great but you must stop repeating the Description of Caricatures' it drove me crazy. I must say I started skipping the pages, as was bored stiff. Come on Martin, go back to your great writing.
repetative
niclea | 16/11/2008 | See all niclea's reviews (2) »
Having read every Martina Cole book, I must admit I was disappointed with the last two. I found them so repetative that I was getting bored and just wanted to get to the end. The story lines were great but having to read the same thing over and over about the characters got on my nerves, but no doubt I will read her next novel in the hope that it will be like her previous ones.
I'm with Hayley and Minta on this - just a general repeat of her other books, same old heard before stuff, the phrases like "any slight, real or imagined" and "an belly full of arms and legs" came into play once again, it was pretty similar to her last book with Danny Cadogan in!! yes it was good, gritty, but just similar to her recent others, my favourite for the record was Faceless, I have read every single one of Martina Coles books and wait desperately for her new ones to come out, after this one.... well I reckon I will still buy her, but I think I'll just chill and wait for the cheapy paperback!! Sorry Martina, but you just didn't hit jackpot this time, you need to get some new "faces" and some new places!!!
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