Colour Blind

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The couple learns of the widening chasm that exists between them as they wonder whether they can cross the gulf separating their worlds. No surpirse that period-drama-stalwart Sean Bean played Dominic O'Brien, stomping through the poverty-stricken streets of turn-of-the-century Tyneside. More used to Hollywood scripts these days, appearing in The Woman in Black, There will be Blood and Harry Potter, Irish actor Ciarán Hinds played a young man caught in a loveless marriage.

I was interested in reading this because I saw the film version once, and I definitely prefer the film to the book. His elder sister, Joan Armatrading, had been invited to record a title song, but the BBC at Pebble Mill in Birmingham could not afford her fee (the reggae band Matumbi took the gig and had a big hit); over lunch with the show’s producer, Peter Ansorge, who was having trouble finding a teenager for the Blues in the Night episode, she suggested he take a look at her little brother. Born Catherine Ann McMullen in Tyne Dock, South Shields, she eventually moved to East Jarrow, Country Durham (which became the setting for ‘The Fifteen Streets’, one of her best-known novels).

She authored almost hundred books and over 123 million copies of her works have been sold worldwide. Anthony, as he was known early on, was just 17 and working backstage at the Birmingham Rep, where he soon became head flyman. Matt is then spotted outside by one of Hassan's friends and he is dragged up to Rose and James' room where he proceeds to punch Rose and threatens to burn the house down.

Despite all the films and stage plays adapted from her work, though, it was on Television that she achieved the greatest success.Some of the best television produced in our region was Tyne Tees’ adaptations of the gritty novels of Catherine Cookson. 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.

Now Rose was deeply, desperately in love -- with a man who claimed not to care about the colour of her skin. As with many of the Fifteen Streets residents, the McQueens are big-hearted and blunt; opinionated and often speaking with no holds barred in the face of any attempt to go against social convention.

I don't see myself ever reading this again, but I am still giving it five stars because depsite the fact I didn't like a single character, I couldn't put it down!