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I checked the other reviews of this book, and was a bit surprised. I don't mind books that lend themselves to sequels, but each one should stand alone. Too many unanswered questions - a woman's death not reported by the story's supposed heroes, the sudden arrival of a child, the failure of Ann Marie's family to question her involvement - just didn't make sense to me. The insight into impoverished Ireland might have been genuine; I lack the historical knowledge to comment on that.


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It started out good but half way she brings in a lot of new story lines most of them have no ending leaving you hanging
I was so distracted by the constant, and I mean constant, discussion about tea. In almost every chapter, somebody was making tea, drinking tea, wanting tea - it was ridiculous and distracting. The story was way too unbelievable to me to stay interested.
The title was brilliant! It caught my attention right off. However the writing was extremely choppy and simplistic, the sentences often being short, as if written for a middle school child. In addition, the heroine's name was repeated unnecessarily several times in one paragraph -- many times throughout the book. It was so annoying that I read only half of the book, then skipped to the end to see where the plot would take the main character. Descriptions of places and routines were often beat into the ground. Hence, all these hurdles made this a VERY slow read! The introduction of the little girl, Emerald, and her tragic circumstances was the highlight of the story, and could have saved this novel, but it wasn't enough. The writing was just too awful.
A small matter but it bothered me. No one, particularly women, said "fecking" in Ireland during the period the book was written. Today you hear it on every street in Dublin, less so in the country, but almost never during the period this book was written. Jackson is so used to this over-used word in Ireland today that she assigns it to people in her book. Believe me, if they did exist they would be rolling in their graves. I was no offended by the word but by the poor research that allowed such an obvious mistake.
This novel depicts the life of a woman in poverty who's father has died, leaving her alone in the world. With her new-found freedom, Ivy Murphy learns she can direct her own life and use her intelligence and ingenuity to bring herself out of poverty.

First off, the author's writing style is less than elegant and a tad clunky, but it gets the job done. The author uses an omnipotent 3rd person POV, so she randomly jumps from the mind of one character to the thoughts of another, often from one paragraph to the next, which allows her to adopt a "tell, don't show" style of writing which I did not appreciate. Instead of showing how a person feels by their actions and expressions, she just "jumps into their mind" and tells her readers how they are feeling. I found it irritating and felt it drained vigor and richness from the story.

I felt the dialogue utilized in the story was awkward and unrealistic. Almost every other dialogue sentence was finished with someone's name, even if only two people are conversing. For example, "What are you thinking, Ivy?" "Oh, I don't know, Jem, just thinking." "Oh no, not that thinking, Ivy." "You eejit, Jem!" Once I noticed it, I couldn't stop seeing it and it became immensely irritating. In a 30 minute conversation with a friend, how often do you say their name after the initial greeting? Not very often, if at all! It was even worse when 3 or more people were part of the conversation.

So, a good story, but poorly executed.
A look into the lives of poor Irish people during the 1920's living hand to mouth in destitution was captivating to start, but deteriorated into a melodrama as the story began to become a bit unrealistic. Would a wealthy, naive spinster really want to befriend a poor, ragged nobody and spread her wealth among the
inhabitants of a rotting slum? Why was Mary Rose's death not reported? Why was the young orphan Emma, not discharged to a responsible caregiver? The story moved along well enough, but the writing was amateurish, more on the level of a young adult novel.
A remarkable book. Gemma Jackson gives the reader a wide-open look into the lives of the Irish poor of the early 20th century; without relying on the usual tear-jerker, "pity the poor" kind of writing. Not at all. While the back streets of Dublin are described with attention to realistic detail (just how did you imagine a woman actually "relieved" herself while hampered by all those clothes, and without indoor plumbing, after all?), the book is up-beat and hopeful from beginning to end. The characters are honest, the situations ring true, and the great changes in everyone's lives from improvements in technology all blend together to create a story that entertains, certainly, but also educates the reader, and leaves you cheering on the characters as they make their world a better place to live in. Can't wait to read the next installment!
I checked the other reviews of this book, and was a bit surprised. I don't mind books that lend themselves to sequels, but each one should stand alone. Too many unanswered questions - a woman's death not reported by the story's supposed heroes, the sudden arrival of a child, the failure of Ann Marie's family to question her involvement - just didn't make sense to me. The insight into impoverished Ireland might have been genuine; I lack the historical knowledge to comment on that.