The Four Streets: Volume 1

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I understand it is the major part of the story line, however I felt the description of abuse could have been covered much more sensitively. Trashily written, l don't doubt it broaches some important subjects and recounts a worthy historical period for Liverpool. While I know sexual exploitation by one's spiritual leaders did and still does occur, I can read all about in my own local newspaper. St Mary's church, which stood at the end of Nelson Street, was visited at least once a day by every woman on the four streets. In this tight little world, it's outsiders who spell trouble, unless they're Irish outsiders, when what matters is that they are Irish.

It’s just that there’s a right way and a wrong way in The Four Streets, and the wrong way is anything involving a chemist and the right way is highly mysterious. Aha, Jerry thought, seeing an opportunity in the girl's problem, thank ye Lord, a hundred thousand times, for here's me chance.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. The main source of income for each household came from the labour of the men who lived on the four streets. Heartbreaking, gripping, life-affirming, this story, based on Nadine's own childhood background, is set in the Catholic community of 1950s Liverpool, where young men and women, fleeing the poverty of rural Ireland, have come to seek a better life. The book tells the story of a close knit Irish community which has settled in Liverpool and most of the men work at the dockside. The priests were hugely influential amongst the community and combined the role of law keepers, teachers and saviours of souls.

Like some of the other reviewers on here, I bought this book, which is the first book in a trilogy, because it was cheap and I thought I would get around to reading it at some point. I seem to have picked up quite a few books set in the 40s and 50s lately, as someone who couldn't even tell you whether they live next to a single person or a family, it's intriguing to read about such strong bonds within and community and to see how they all pull together and help each other out. I'm now reading your second book 'HIDE HER NAME', the second book in this trilogy which I will review when I'm finished.I don’t like to tell the story of the novel, that spoils it for the reader, I think is is more important to give your opinion on what is within the novel, and what it is you get out of it, or what you have learned from it. Jerry and Bernadette had met on the ferry across from Dublin to Liverpool on a gloriously sunny but cold and very windy day. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.

She was the person everyone went to for help and advice, and her home was where the women often gathered to discuss the latest gossip. In fairness it does seem like even in the Lovely Lane series the author just doesn't have a great idea of who she wants her characters to be. For me a good book is one that takes me to another place in which I am totally absorbed – ‘The Four Street’ did not do that for me.When I chose this book to read I was oblivious to the fact it is written by Nadine Dorries, an MP known for taking part in some reality show I never watch, which was just as well as I was not influenced by the authors previous fame and did genuinely find the book engaging. Home to an Irish-Catholic immigrant community, they lay in close proximity to where the homes of families far less fortunate had once stood. Jerry introduced himself, as best he could, but it came out as a prolonged and indistinguishable jabbering. He might have been about to have sex for the first time in almost two years, he might have been angry and have lost all reason, but he wasn't going to spill the Guinness.