The Round Tower

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My first Cookson was 'The Whip', & it contained what I thought to be an inordinate amount of Life Suffering(tm)...however, I liked the MCs & assumed the onslaught was in homage to Victorian fiction where the poor heroine barely survives to reach her HEA. I still like 'The Whip' & remember it fondly. But I've since discovered that Cookson's copious Life Suffering style isn't making a statement about the genre -- no, it's her authorly kink. The endless pile-on of gloom, doom, & shitty life events NEVER ENDS, & I can't deal with such a thundercloud. I now have an urge to watch Jean Anderson in The Brothers if a higher quality version could be found! So, here’s the thing about The Round Tower. It is about eight hundred hours long, and I don’t even know why, because hardly anything happens. The first hour can be boiled down pretty neatly. Vanessa, who is duller than dishwater and twice as bland, gets seduced by her father’s friend, gets pregnant, and makes blank faces as her parents yell at her. U ovom romanu dobro pobjeđuje zlo; o Ajrin se skrbi dobrodušna Beti koja nasljeđuje kuću punu blaga, Ričard se suprotstavlja surovom ocu koji ga čitav život ugnjetava... Nada na kraju pobjeđuje beznađe. This was a gripping tale of a women who had been greatly abused, gained the courage to escape, and finally found her voice through an adopted family of friends who loved her and respected her and helped her to heal.

The Dwelling Place - Penguin Books UK

Divna drama koja slikovito prikazuje englesko društvo pred početak II svj. rata i nakon njega. U centru radnje je misteriozna žena koja je žrtva porodičnog nasilja, odbacena od svih i koja se bori za egzistenciju u surovom svijetu. I enjoyed every one of them and also the made for TV films that confirmed that the characters where just as I had imagined when I was reading these stories. Then, after she’s in bed, he comes over and says, “We’re going to have some good times together, eh? Do I get in there?” Well, Vanessa's dad is furious. His daughter in pregnant and married to a "common" man. Angus's mom is furious. She is worked off her feet and now she has to take care of Vanessa too. Angus's sister is furious for reasons of her own. Everybody is furious! It's only a matter of time before the you know what hits the fan!They have friends, but charity cannot always spare them the harsh reality of their struggle and when Cissie attracts the unwanted attentions of a local landowner, her world seems close to collapse.

The Round Tower (TV Mini Series 1998– ) - IMDb

Even though he complains to his friend that he doesn’t have quite the crush on her that he used to, because she’s no longer ‘untouched,’ he agrees to marry her so that her kid isn’t born in infamy. It’s very sweet of him. He even gets a 50s Regulation Pair of Twin Beds installed in his bedroom so it can stay nice and chaste the way the 50s like it.To those around her, Irene Baindor had been a young woman of class and musical talent, the wife of a wealthy and powerful man, and the mother to a beloved baby boy. But behind closed doors she was a woman with a dangerous husband, a husband who would one day act with such cruelty that Irene would be left without most of her voice and memory. It was then that Irene disappeared. What Irene had been doing, and where she had been, gradually emerges over the following weeks, as the unlikely benefactors who had befriended her step forward to reveal the remarkable life she has led. In 1983 Katie Mulholland was adapted into a stage musical by composer Eric Boswell and writer-director Ken Hill. Cookson attended the première. [16] From the very start, this story had me hooked and although we don't see much from Irene's point of view, it is about her - and what a wonderful hero she is. We see her faced with an unbearable life and how she survives...I don't give spoilers. However, the rest of the characters are all influenced by her in many ways - from love to hate to sorrow to adoration. She is an amazing character and although she is 'silent' she has a very strong voice. Es simple, divertido, violento, clasista y mil cosas más, que todas equilibradas correctamente dan lugar a un libro que no podés dejar de leer, y tampoco podés dejar de pensar en el cuando no lo estás leyendo.