- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (4 Feb 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749321776
- ISBN-13: 978-0749321772
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 802,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The lights of London seem bright to Kitty Miller, but their sparkle soon fades when she finds herself alone and destitute. That is until the feisty young prostitute, Tibs Tyler, takes her under her wing, and the two girls set themselves up as a music hall act to escape Tibs's violent pimp.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The most critical review I have ever written was of Patricia Cornwell's attempt at historial research, Portrait of a Killer. Gilda O'Neill has gone the other way. She has left behind her usual excellent historical research East End textbooks to attempt to write a novel set in the East End of Jack the Ripper. Like Miss Cornwell, she should have stuck to what she knows. I can see why they've used a Lesley Pearse quote on the front of the novel to help sell it. It's like a poor man's version of a Lesley Pearse book. If you inject a very silly, completely unbelievable Jack the Ripper plot into Miss Pearse's book Hope, and reduce the writing quality a couple of notches, you've got The Lights of London. It's odd that Gilda O'Neill, who has made her name doing research books, has written a novel set against the backcloth of the Jack the Ripper murders without apparently doing any research into the killings. And her creative writing is poor. The book is weak on dialogue, plot and characters. There are the usual snippets of interesting information that we get in her other books, but the similarity to her other books is almost the problem. It's like she's written one of usual books and then cobbled together a plot to turn it into a novel.
At least it's an honest attempt. It's clearly not been ghost written, which would have been a cynical way to have made the most out of Gilda O'Neill's name. Perhaps a compromise would have been for the publishers to have one of their people at least edit it. It reads like they haven't.
At least it's an honest attempt. It's clearly not been ghost written, which would have been a cynical way to have made the most out of Gilda O'Neill's name. Perhaps a compromise would have been for the publishers to have one of their people at least edit it. It reads like they haven't.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This story is set at the turn of the 20th century in London. It follows the lives of Kitty and Tibs in their desperate survival, and rise to fame and happiness.
On the whole i found this book very enjoyable. At times it was very enthralling and kept me turning page after page. My only criticism is that some events in the book seemed a little too convenient.
Its hardly an outstanding achievement, but definately worth a read on a rainy day!
On the whole i found this book very enjoyable. At times it was very enthralling and kept me turning page after page. My only criticism is that some events in the book seemed a little too convenient.
Its hardly an outstanding achievement, but definately worth a read on a rainy day!
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