Shit Happens by Eileen Wharton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I had to read this just because of the title alone..lol
When i read the book description i knew it was the sort of book i like to read, and i wasn't wrong.
It really is a great read.. and realistic to, with laugh out loud moments, but i guess there are may estates and folk out there just like the characters in this book.
I am really looking forward to another book so Eileen get it ready for me please..lol
Rose Starling, abused wife, is living on benefits with her three children on a sink estate in a small town in the Newcastle area, keeping one step ahead of the tallyman and dancing in the shadows of various illegal dealings. She's got problems though when bits of her ex-husband turn up in different places and the slimy DI Savage seems to be bending the evidence to link her to the death. Add the fact that she's being pressured into taking a `job' by hard-nosed Vera Devlin from the estate and having to work in a topless bar to make ends meet and you can see she's up against it. Desperate to extricate herself from the mess she breaks into her old marital home to find the diary of her dead husband, except that his mother has taken up residence and arrives back early from bingo...
Set against a backdrop of Northern council estate life, this fast paced, humorous novel exemplifies the problems caused by poverty, piles and unruly children, think Jeremy Kyle meets the Thorn Birds and you won't be far wrong!
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