In fairness it does seem like even in the Lovely Lane series the author just doesn't have a great idea of who she wants her characters to be. It was obvious to everyone who knew their story that Jerry and Bernadette had benefited from that all too rare but wonderful thing, love at first sight.

She's not really the only character who doesn't seem like they need to be included or at least would have been better included in a different way. Dorries, who controversially appeared as a contestant on I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, has said that she manages to fit in writing with her job as an MP because "my youngest child left home for university and I was left with an empty nest. The other is hiding a dreadful secret which she dare not let slip to anyone, lest it rips the heart out of the community.The best way to review a book is to ask yourself after you have put it down “do I want to pick it back up again and carry on reading it? Her mother, Maura, and best friend Nellie's grandmother decide the girls must be spirited away to Ireland to await the birth of the baby. This is the first and introductory book in this trilogy, and is well written and believable ( I grew up in the Liverpool area during this time post war period, and felt instantly ''at home'' when reading all three of these books ). Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. I felt as though they were burning into me very soul,' was how Bernadette described her first meeting with Jerry, wistfully and often, her eyes welling up at the mere memory of the day.

On the day one of the O'Prey boys from number twenty-four was sent to prison, the mothers ran to gather around Maura's door, each carrying a cup of tea and a chair out onto the street to sit and gossip, watching the children play. For me a good book is one that takes me to another place in which I am totally absorbed – ‘The Four Street’ did not do that for me.Nadine Dorries grew up in a working-class family in Liverpool and spent a great deal of time in Mayo with her Irish grandmother.

An exception is the thriller, in which the plot is all and it does not matter so much whether the characters are believable, which is why politicians are generally less bad at writing thrillers . Trouble is coming to the four streets, especially for its redoubtable women, who've struggled through a bitter winter to put food on the table. Despite living on the edge of poverty, they are bound together by humour and loyalty, gossip, grumbling – and endless cups of tea. This is a historical fiction book about life in the 1950s for Irish Catholic immigrants in Liverpool.For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice centre (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK).

You sympathised with the women and their lot, a baby every year, living on a hand-to-mouth existence, where their husbands went down to the docks every day without the guarantee of any work and I was enjoying reading about their day-to-day lives when suddenly, halfway through the book, everything changed and it suddenly went really dark. Every overcrowded home in her four streets would appear to be a persuasive argument in favour of birth control in any form. In this book they apparently have 7 children, but in the Lovely Lane book 4 the characters with the same name appear to have 4 and they seem to be a lot younger. At the top of the four streets lay a grassed-over square of common land known as the green, which in school holidays hosted the longest ever football matches, sometimes lasting for days on end. This is not a book for anyone with young children, especially not the audiobook, and it left me with tears on my face and a slight lingering degree of paranoia about ever trusting anyone to be alone with my kids.She has been MP for Mid Bedfordshire since 2005, and is presently serving as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.