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product_id: 44338795
title: "The Business"
brand: "martina cole"
price: "190 kr"
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reviews_count: 8
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# The Business

**Brand:** martina cole
**Price:** 190 kr
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Business by martina cole
- **How much does it cost?** 190 kr with free shipping
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## Description

A tale of drugs, prostitution and a young girl&apos;s fight for survival - against all the odds Imelda Dooley is scared. Really scared. She&apos;s played hard and fast and now she&apos;s been caught. She&apos;s pregnant and now she&apos;s on her own. Her father, not a man to mess with, will see that somebody pays for this. And it&apos;s not going to be her. So Imelda Dooley tells a lie. A lie that literally causes murders. When Mary Dooley&apos;s husband is killed in the night&apos;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&apos;s life spiral into a vicious, hate-fuelled cycle of drugs and prostitution. Caught up in the carnage that is Imelda&apos;s existence are Mary&apos;s adored grandchildren, Jordanna and Kenny. Pretty little Jordanna isn&apos;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&apos;s fight for survival -- against all the odds.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

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    BORING
  

*by L***E on February 8, 2013*









  
  
    I have read a few of Martina Cole's books and while I have enjoyed the others, this book was very hard getting through. The first 100 pages were just descriptions of the characters over and over and over, the rest of the book was a short story and descriptions of the characters over and over and over. After the 10th time being told how dull Imelda's brothers were I wanted to scream at my Kindle, and yes we get it, Imelda is beautiful and she has no thought for anyone but herself, we do not need to be reminded of that fact everytime her name is mentioned. The story on it own would have been strong but the endless, repetitive descriptions of the characters killed the book for me. Also the characters all started out thinking one thing of the people in their lives and within a few pages changes their mind and suddenly this person is the exact opposite of what they started off saying. This book just seemed to plod along and it made reading a chore. If this is your first name reading Martina do not start with this book because you will miss out on someone who have written some really good books.
  


### ⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Hard Read!
  

*by R***N on June 22, 2012*









  
  
    I've been a fan of Martina Cole's for a few years now and have read many of her books. While she does have a history of providing drawn out, repetitive background information, it's never been to the extent that it was in this book. In her other books the story line draws you in and makes you care more about finding out the secrets than a bit of repeated info. This book is completely opposite.This book almost feels forced. As if Cole just wanted to get it finished and used painful repetition to do so. She provides in-depth background info on even the most minute characters, which  is beyond pointless. Their characters are so small and fleeting in the grand scheme of things that we don't need to know that deep into their background.Her story was confusing at times as well, as she seemed to lack paying attention to detail and would often jump into another story line without any kind of warning or easy transition. This leaves the reader confused and wondering how they got there.The worst though is the repetition. This book is an almost painful read because of it. For example, one character would say something and you would then have to read through three pages of already very often stated background info just to finally reach the other characters response. I found myself skipping pages at a time just to avoid reading the facts she had already made perfectly clear up to this point, and to get on with the story.If you extracted all of the repetitive background filler, this book would probably only be 1/4 of the length of what it currently is. That's just how much "filler" this book contains.Do yourself a favor and skip the aggravation!
  


### ⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Not her best book
  

*by C***S on April 8, 2019*









  
  
    Typical book by Martina Cole continues to repeat the same phases over and again throughout the book
  


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