Dangerous Lady was a four-part British mini-series TV drama, which aired on ITV and was based on Martina Cole's 1992 novel of the same name. In the meantime, I’m looking in the cupboard at home because I fancy I put a really great story in there several years ago. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. As well as the fact women were expected to support their husbands no matter what they did and the attitudes to homosexuality in Michael’s relationships with men.

Prior to her literary success, Cole had a variety of low-paid jobs, including working as a cleaner, a wine waitress, an agency nurse and a supermarket shelf-stacker. It’s a tale of protection rackets, grubby London clubs, gold bullion robberies, violent characters, brutal killings and a most determined and ruthless woman who might never have turned to crime had it not been for sad chance. This special **25th anniversary hardback edition** is a must for fans old and new, and readers of Patricia Cornwell and Karin Slaughter. Cole also provides so much social commentary on 1950s and 1960s culture, in particular choice on abortion and the consequences of arranging a marriage on the foundation of pregnancy in the characters of Roy and Janine.For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice center (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). This was another brilliant book from Martina Cole which had everything from a love story to sadness with rags to riches thrown in. Headed and dominated by their oldest brother, who is also unashamedly gay, their family cuts a swathe through London as their reach and power grows.

The life and times of one of London's top crime families starting from the birth of the youngest Ryan and the only girl of the family Maura to her first love and how she became the most dangerous woman in London. She is the bestselling author of fourteen novels set in London's gangland, and her most recent three paperbacks have gone straight to No. Maura, the Ryan clan’s youngest and only daughter, is the last person anyone expects to take on gangland London.Sadly all the other of Cole's books I've read since, maybe 2 0r 3 of them, have been pretty much identical, full of cold-hearted vicious thugs with no redeeming features so I don't read them anymore. This is as much about sibling loyalty and rivalry as it is about crime, and it's all very well done. No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, clever and beautiful —and she's determined that nothing will stand in her way. The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter.

I only read to the end to see if I was missing something (no) and did it make me think - not at all. I remember when I was a young Harry Potter obsessed whippersnapper when my sister first purchased and read this book which would’ve been around 2004, which was unusual for my sister at that time. A stage version of Dangerous Lady opened at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, London, [2] her third to be presented at the Royal Stratford, to positive reviews. The goods do not need to be in their original packaging however in a sellable condition, and at your own cost and risk. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.I managed to read it all the way through but gradually becoming more and more amazed at it's popularity - characters ok, story aspects ranging from poor to ok, dialogue barely ok, For me two things make a book good - do I want to read to the end and does it make me think. p>Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. But it’s also a fascinating insight into how one event can change the whole course of your future, whether good or bad. The first half of the book focuses mostly on Michael Ryan’s rise as he becomes king of the London Underworld and slowly his younger siblings get drawn into working in a life of crime as Michael’s heavies and during this half Maura is only a child. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

If a refund or reimbursement is payable to you, we will transfer the money using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase. The plot covers the exploits of the Ryan family up to the mid-1980s, culminating in the death of Michael Ryan and the arrest of Maura. In both characters, Cole asks how much of a life of crime is down to personal choice and how much of it is down to circumstances? The only real negative is I found Cole’s use of foreboding a bit too obvious and forefront in the earlier chapters as there is quite a few chapters which end saying a character will live to regret what they have done.Our Adult Fiction Books, Range includes Classics Novels, Comic Books, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Novels, General Fiction, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction and War.