by Kate Manning
You wouldn't expect, looking at her early life, that Ann Muldoon Jones would be able to become a successful physician and millionaire. She was half an orphan, taking care of her younger sister and brother because her washerwoman mother had been brutally injured on the job. She and her siblings are w...
I love Axie. She's caring, loyal, compassionate, tenacious and vulnerable. She's lost trust and struggles throughout to believe it exist. She understands what it means to be without love, to be without a Mum. And because of this she continuously puts herself at risk. This story is an unforgettable...
Written in somewhat of a melodramatic fashion and yes sometimes I felt a little too dramatic yet it was impossible for me to not get caught up in Axie's story. For one thing I just love this character's name, Axie Muldoon, just resonated for me for some reason. That this book is loosely built on t...
The story sounded like it would be interesting, but the book just didn't deliver. I thought I would be reading about a real person, not a character "inspired by" a real person. And I didn't really expect the heavy focus on the main character's childhood. It just didn't really keep my interest, an...
I have recently discovered a liking for historic novels sent in the same time period as this book, and all of them contained similar elements to this one. Its based on true events, has strong feisty female characters uncommon for the times and more importantly these stories stayed with me long after...
This was an easy-reading, interesting story inspired by a real midwife who became one of the most controversial figures in Victorian New York City.I especially loved the first half of the book, it reminded me of Angela's ashes and Gangs of New York. My heart broke for Axie, Dutch and little Joe havi...
Sinking into My Notorious Life requires some effort. For one, the narrative is told in dialect. Readers must weed through the uneducated speech of a self-made woman and must also decipher the slang of the era. It makes the story more personable, as if Axie is sitting across from the reader telling h...
Amazon link Release date: September 10, 2013http://www.amazon.com/My-Notorious-Life-Kate-Manning/dp/1451698062/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363976298&sr=1-1&keywords=Kate+Manning
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