Author:
Annie Murray
Title:
Water Gypsies
Genre:
Contemporary Fiction, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction,
Fiction, Historical, Romance,
I
was given this book along with the first book in this series the
narrowboat girl.
This
book has 458 pages and 50 chapters in it.
I
would tell people that you should step outside your comfort zone with
books because it is good to add more authors and genres to your
reading portfolio. Even if you do not read books like this.
I
normally read books of this genre but l also stepped outside my
comfort zone with authors and genres l am so glad l did because l
have read so many great books and come across some great authors.
I
highly recommend this book but l would tell people to have the
narrowboat girl as well so you can read the first book in the series
and then this book so you know the full story not half.
Synopsis:
It is 1942, after a childhood of suffering in Birmingham Maryann
Bartholomew has built a life of happiness and safety with her husband
Joel and their children, working the canals on his narrowboat, the
Esther Jane. But the back-breaking and constant childbearing takes
their toll on Maryann, and the tragic loss of her old friend Nancy,
followed by a further pregnancy, leads her to commit a desperate act
which nearly costs her life, the walls of her security are broken
down when Joel suffers an accident and. To keep the boats working,
Maryann is forced to allow Sylvia and Dot, two wartime volunteers, in
to the privacy of her life. When she discovered that someone keeps
calling her at Birmingham's tyseley wharf, the dark memories of her
past begin to overwhelm her. For that someone, who seems to be
watching her every move, is becoming more dangerous than even she
could imagine. This is the seguel to the narrowboat girl. In august
1942 Maryann gives birth to twin girls by then she had two sons named
Joel and Ezra and A daughter named Sally after her beloved sister and
Maryann also had a son Harry who sadly passed away due to pneumonia
and Maryann and Joel named their daughters Ada and Esther after
Joel's mother and sister. Maryann's best friend falls in to the water
when heavily pregnant and drowns and her unborn baby dies too.
Maryann and Darius are very upset and Norman Griffin turns up and
sets fire to the boat with Maryann, Sally, Rose and the twins Esther
and Ada on and poor Maryann and Ada was burnt and a woman helped her
with Ada's burn by putting flour on to dry it up.
Review:
I found this book really easy to get in to and hard to put down once
l started reading it. I was hooked after reading the first page. I
was really happy to be reading the follow on to the narrowboat girl.
I was happy to read that Maryann had got a happy life with her
husband and their 5 children and I was sad to read that Maryann lost
a little boy Harry that he died of pneumonia. I was sad to read that
Maryann's best friend Nancy drowned like Ada Joel and Darius's sister
but is was very upsetting for Maryann because Nancy was Maryann only
friend. She always use to share all her feelings with her sister
Sally but she took her own life because of the things Norman Griffin
did to her. Maryann and Sally's mother Flo buried Sally under Griffin
not Nelson which l thought was wrong after everything Norman did to
them poor girls. I thought their mother only cared about herself not
her four children. She wanted money not her children. I was sad to
read that Nancy's unborn baby died after she fell in the water and
drowned and Darius was very upset about the loss of his girlfriend
and their unborn baby. I wish Nancy and Darius could have been
married because they made a great couple and l was happy Maryann did
not die and she lived after her boat was set on fire. I felt sorry
for poor Ada and Maryann being burnt and l hope Norman goes to jail
where he belong
About
The Author: Annie Murray was born in 1960 in Berkshire, and
studied English at oxford university. Her first job
took her to Birmingham where she met her husband, John.
They have four children. In 1992 she began writing her first
Birmingham novel, Birmingham rose, which made the times bestseller
list when it was published in 1995. She has written six subsequent
novels including, most recently, the highly successful chocolate
girls.
About
The Book: l love this cover and this book has two different covers
and l love the front.
Star
Rating: Five Out Of Five Stars
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