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Peggy Bowden has not had an easy life. As a teenager, her mother was committed to an asylum and then a local priest forced her into an abusive marriage. But when her husband dies in an accident Peggy sees an opportunity to start again and trains as a midwife. In 1950s Dublin it is not easy for a woman to make a living and Peggy sees a chance to start a business and soon a lucrative maternity home is up and running. But when Peggy realizes that the lack of birth control is an issue for women, she uses their plight as a way to make more money. Very soon Peggy is on the wrong side of the law. What makes a woman decide to walk down a dark path? Can Peggy ever get back on the straight and narrow? Or will she have to pay for her crimes? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Peggy Bowden has been in jail for selling babies and why not, it's only what the church has been doing in Ireland for many years. Peggy now runs a whore house and she has a lucrative sideline of offering illegal abortions. In typical Irish fashion, the prose is both lyrical and amusing, and I just have to share my favourite passage:
"I wouldn't be sitting in a hellhole with a dead woman in my house, prostitutes upstairs, a sergeant in my kitchen and a halfwit in my bath."
It sounds a bit like a Benny Hill sketch but trust me, it was deadly serious. Looking back over the book now, I feel like Peggy Bowden would have given Tony Soprano a run for his money. The Abandoned is like the Irish Sopranos and Sharon Bowden is to Dublin what Martina Cole is to London: both have tough female protagonists that are not only unafraid to wear the trousers, they're willing to kill for it.
Although not the book I was expecting from the title, blurb and cover, I really enjoyed it in the end. I guarantee that all Martina Cole fans will love The Abandoned; Peggy is tough, gutsy and a real rough diamond. I certainly wouldn't like to cross her!
I chose to read an ARC and this is my honest and unbiased opinion. ( )