Although they had a brood of children, they continued to breed, and were passionate, loving and caring neighbours to everyone in the streets. Set in the Irish Catholic community of 1950s Liverpool and on the west coast of Ireland, this is a saga of working-class families. She spent part of her childhood living on a farm with her grandmother, and attended school in a small remote village in the west of Ireland. The best way to review a book is to ask yourself after you have put it down “do I want to pick it back up again and carry on reading it?

And being a male with absolutely no interest in community street life or gossip, I was quite surprised with myself. He regularly sought refuge in the outhouse, one of the few places where no one troubled him, and took his newspaper for company. She trained as a nurse, then followed with a successful career in which she established and then sold her own business. Full details of your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations are available in the UK from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or your Local Authority's Trading Standards Office. Holy Mary, he thought to himself, where the feck has me sensibility gone and why is me hand shaking like a virgin on her wedding night, spillin' the bleedin' tea everywhere?Nadine Dorries was born in Liverpool in the 1950s and raised on a council estate, the daughter of a bus driver.

But the children are also bringers of joy and love, and mothers never really die, so maybe that's alright then. On Christmas morning Kitty Doherty gives birth to her baby - who is immediately taken away for adoption in America. It was obvious to everyone who knew their story that Jerry and Bernadette had benefited from that all too rare but wonderful thing, love at first sight.

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It has been a long time since I have read a story that has affected me so deeply and still has me thinking about it days after finishing it. Yes, provided they had previously enjoyed other historical, family drama poverty stricken tales, family stories etc. None of the men, who are all dockers, belong to a trade union, which will surprise Unite's Len McCluskey, who grew up in the area in the 1960s.As the Dohertys cope with the tragic consequences of Kitty's pregnancy, the police seem close to solving the double murder which rocked the Four Streets to the core. This is an amazing read and although it covers a difficult subject matter, it does it very well and I cannot recommend it enough.

Nadine Dorries has a way of vividly describing everything so you can picture what everything looks like so easily.Dorries brings some amazing insights on the human condition and particularly the mental health problems encountered by one of her central characters. I loved this, I was dreading to reach the end, the characters were so real and I wanted the story to go on and on. Started off well and thought it was going to be a nice book about a community pulling together, it ended up making me feel sick and I didn't enjoy it at all, it was very graphic, poorly written with a ghost character thrown in just to make it that little less believable. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.