My Notorious Life: A Novel
by:
Kate Manning (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781451698077 (1451698070)
ASIN: 1451698070
Publish date: August 5th 2014
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
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...