Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963
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This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His...
Bobby on the Beat
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Pamela Rhodes, one of the first British policewomen, tells her fascinating story in Bobby on the...
Making a Good Life: An Ethnography of Nature, Ethics, and Reproduction
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Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about...
Along the Enchanted Way: A Story of Love and Life in Romania
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When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an...
America's Femme Fatale The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness
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How does a Norwegian farm girl become an infamous American serial killer, responsible for upward of...
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Manhattan to West Cork: Alice's Adventures in Ireland: 2016
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As a young girl Alice Carey came to realise that 'home' can mean different things. The only child of...
The Imposter
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From the Amazon bestselling author of What We Forgot to Bury comes a twisted psychological tale of a...
ClareR (5603 KP) rated The Walking People in Books
Dec 14, 2022
Greta makes a life for HERself once she’s in New York - out of the shadow of her more confident sister, but in doing so, she ends up keeping secrets that I wondered would have been better shared. But these are people constrained by the times they live in and the place they come from.
I really enjoyed following the lives of Greta and Michael as they struggled (and succeeded) to make lives for themselves. Part of me wondered why anyone would want to leave the beauty of rural Ireland for the hustle of New York, but in reality there was nothing there for a lot of young people. If they wanted to earn money and have a job, they left for America and the UK.
It’s just a lovely story, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading this story of a family that loses touch and finds one another years later - with a bittersweet ending.
Recommended.
Alison Pink (7 KP) rated Secret Daughter in Books
Jan 15, 2018
The American couple end up having fertility issues, while the destitute couple in India are exactly the opposite. Not wanting to know her husband has disposed of another unwanted girl, the Indian mother smuggles her baby daughter to an orphanage in Mumbai. And it is there, where the American couple end up adopting her.
The story moves through the life of the girl in parallel with the lives of her adoptive and biological parents. In the end it is a tear jerker, but has a great message about who your real family is.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Fisherman's Friends (2019) in Movies
Mar 20, 2019 (Updated Mar 20, 2019)
Utterly predictable and not very funny (well, we did laugh a lot during the bit with the funeral, but we're not very proud of that), the script overdoses on feelgood platitudes while not bothering all that much about things like characterisation or internal logic. The music is not that bad (if you like that sort of thing), but sheesh, you can go and buy a CD for that. In the end this is a sort of lobotomised version of Local Hero with added folk music.