Advantages: Compelling reading Disadvantages: Some similarities to other novels by the author, strong language may offend some.
Review of The Business, a hardback novel by Martina Cole
The Business is Martina Cole's latest offering in a long line of best selling novels set against a backdrop of London's criminal underworld. For those unfamiliar with Ms Cole's books, she writes of subjects unsavoury, seedy and at times, uncomfortable. Nothing is taboo to Ms Cole and The Business covers violence, murder, prostitution, drug addiction, child abuse and neglect . Her writing style is gritty and she produces novels that are hauntingly readable. Readers are under no illusions about her characters and their lifestyles, a peep into a world very different from most people's reality, Ms Cole's books have the ability to shock, fascinate, touch and repulse me as the story unfolds!
**The Plot**
Covering period from 1978 to the present day, The Business follows ...
Advantages: Another Book From Cole Disadvantages: Not a great page turner
Martina Cole - The Business?..
**The Book**
Martina Cole's latest novel entitled "The Business" is yet another book filled with the gritty, hard hitting seediness that is the London underworld. We go back in time to the late 70's and meet the Dooley family. Gerald Dooley SNR, head of the house, Mary Dooley the mother of three children, two sons and a daughter, Imelda. Imelda is the main charter throughout the book as we follow her life, which is bad from start to finish.
Imelda is trouble with a capital "T" and this is something that her family are soon to realise. Her sexually loose behaviour soon gets her with "a belly full of arms and legs" as Martina Cole so eloquently puts it, and this causes major friction within the family. Her father, Gerald SNR, cannot believe that his young and angelic daughter is already giving ...
The Business is set in the 1980s and tells the story of a young man from London who goes to work in Spain. The film is set in the Costa del Sol,
The acting, the storyline and the script in this film is not very good..
I might recommended this film for the soundtrack but not much else because it really isn't that good.
I rented this film without the additional disc of extras so I can't really tell you anything about them. Even so, I wouldn't bother watching it if I were you.
Running Time: 90 mins
Director: Nick Love
Producer: Allan Niblo, James Richardson
Executive/Co-Producer: Rupert Preston
Editor: Stuart Gazzard
Screenwriter: Nick Love
Director of Photography: Damian Bromley
Sound: Simon Willis
Cast: Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Georgina Chapman, Geoff Bell ...
