Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16202 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-03
• Binding: Paperback
• 672 pages

Synopsis
Highly acclaimed for her hard-hitting, uncompromising and compelling writing, as well as her phenomenal No. 1 success, Martina Cole is the only author who dares to tell it like it is.CLOSE has been a runaway success in hardback and is the story of the women who are left behind. Set in London's dark and violent gangland, it tells the tale of a gutsy mother and her two sons, and their lives in and out of jail. With her characteristically haunting writing and visceral subject matter, Martina Cole, has written yet another compulsive bestseller - her best yet.

Customer Reviews

Terrible audio book
This has got to be one of the worst audio books I have ever listened to. Although the storyline is good, whoever abriged it for an audio book should have listened to how it comes accross. It's as though someone said ok, abridge this book for me, but you can only have one line from each page, or if vital, a paragraph. So Lily works in a factory, bad life at home, meets Patrick, gets married, has baby, and that's in the first chapter. When you listen to a Martina Cole audio book, it's nice to know what makes the characters tick, how they've come to be who and what they are. The Take abridged works ok, but not this book. I tried to sell it on eBay and nobody wanted it, even at a bargain price! That says it all!

not so bad
This is the first book I have read of Martina Cole and I really enjoyed it... looking at the other reviews I am keen to read others now if this is her worst.... I agree sometimes the language was over the top but a fun read all the same.

Not worth a Read !
Agree whole-heartedly with the above/below comments. Was a big fan previously but I found this book very hard work and unenjoyable. The repeatition was endless and it got very boring reading the same thing over and over, page after page just to pad out the storyline, which didn't even really go anywhere. And the characters were even inconsistent! I don't think I will be buying any more of Ms Cole's books after this, which is a shame because she has written some very good stories. Hugely disappointing.