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A compelling new series about life in the East End during the Second World War from the bestselling author of My East End and Our Street
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The Flanagans, the Tanners and the Lovells all live on the top floor of the Turnbury Buildings - a crumbling Victorian tenement in the heart of London's East End.
Nell Flanagan is a decent, hardworking woman, married to Stephen, a tough, heavy-drinking brute of a man, who works as a casual in the docks - when there's work available. Nell has hidden the abuse she has suffered at his hands from her young children, although most of the neighbours realise what's going on.
The Tanners think she must be asking for it, but Martin Lovell has always admired Nell. When he sees Stephen actually attacking Nell, he can stand back no longer, but his actions have repercussions for all the families...
Set in 1936 against a backdrop of civil war in Spain, the threat of fascism in western Europe, and the privations of the Depression at home, Rough Justice is the first novel in a dramatic new series about the lives, loves and losses, the fears, hopes and desires, the failures and triumphs of the families who live and work in and around Turnbury Buildings.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
What with 2 young children and working at night, I barely have time to read anymore, and if I do, it needs to be something really good! This was easy reading and good story telling. It had me not wanting to put it down from the very first page. I was really sad when I had finished the book as I found myself missing the characters and wanting more! Am looking forward to sampling something else from Gina O'Neill! Well worth a read
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Gilda O'Neill's non-fiction work fill half a shelf in my library, and I've greatly enjoyed her insightful, full, and thought provoking treatments of the East End. I was quite disappointed in this novel, which I'd been eager to read based on her historical works. The theme - one who has a tragic background considers herself lucky to have any means of survival, and will take any sort of abuse to keep that intact - indeed reflects situations in which many people find themselves, but it was overdone. Every new page seemed to bring a new major tragedy, right from the gruesome beginning which even Dickens could not have topped for a miserable start to childhood.
The realistic elements - don't interfere in others' business even if they are in danger, for example - certainly have a strong basis in social codes of the time and place. Yet the gore and tragedy are outweighed, if that is possible, by the heroine's total lack of initiative in trying to get out of horrid situations. She cuts off a true and concerned friend, for example, through terror of the offence her friend gave to an abusive common law husband.
There is no real character development. It is just a chronicle of misery, without other dimensions. By contrast, in Gilda's non-fiction work, there is complete honesty about East End conditions and hardships (whether during hop picking times or the blitz), yet a warmth, humour, and gritty realism (ranging from nostalgic images to determined survival). This novel does not capture the very elements which make Gilda's other works so engrossing.
The realistic elements - don't interfere in others' business even if they are in danger, for example - certainly have a strong basis in social codes of the time and place. Yet the gore and tragedy are outweighed, if that is possible, by the heroine's total lack of initiative in trying to get out of horrid situations. She cuts off a true and concerned friend, for example, through terror of the offence her friend gave to an abusive common law husband.
There is no real character development. It is just a chronicle of misery, without other dimensions. By contrast, in Gilda's non-fiction work, there is complete honesty about East End conditions and hardships (whether during hop picking times or the blitz), yet a warmth, humour, and gritty realism (ranging from nostalgic images to determined survival). This novel does not capture the very elements which make Gilda's other works so engrossing.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
brilliant really good everyone should read it.
if you like martina cole you will love this
if you like martina cole you will love this
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