Going East edition by Matthew D'ancona Literature Fiction eBooks
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London can be as pitiless as it is bountiful. No one knows that better than Mia Taylor. From a gilded life of privilege to a shabby alternative health centre in London's East End in the space of weeks. The violent tragedy that propels Mia east also pitches her unwittingly into a bigger history, a modern legend of migration and change.
Mia's new life brings her into contact both with a kaleidoscope of characters who inhabit the extraordinary city of London and the burning issues that will mould its future. Politics and racism, corruption and betrayal, poverty and decadence, all smoulder side by side as the capital blazes into the new millennium.
Out of the ashes emerges Mia a troubled, questing woman who hopes to find herself by going east.
Going East edition by Matthew D'ancona Literature Fiction eBooks
You may not have heard of this one, but it is an intriguing thriller about Mia, whose happy life and high flying career are destroyed when a bomb rips through her family home. She flees to gritty East London and starts over, all the while trying to figure out who ripped apart her life and why. Original and suspenseful.Product details
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Going East edition by Matthew D'ancona Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
When Mia Taylor loses her entire family in a horrific incident, she loses a way of life and her sense of identity. The well-educated, upper-class Taylors enjoy the best that London society has to offer, a golden existence. Mia could never have anticipated the demise of everything she holds dear, nor can she easily recover from such a blow.
In her mid-twenties, Mia moves to the East End to purge her past and start over in a life unconnected to her history. She spends her energies at a local charitable agency, trying to make a difference to the people who cross the threshold of her new employer. Eventually, of course, Mia will be forced to confront the horrors of the past and deal with the feelings she buried with her family.
Then things get complicated. Mia is challenged in ways she hasn't anticipated, as a voice from the past contacts her and a new romantic interest threatens to arouse her long-dormant emotions. Family history resurfaces with a vengeance and Mia's responds by shutting everything out, even her chance at romance, diving recklessly into the nightmare scenario of the accident, knowing that is where the answers lie. From the world of socialites and high-finance to the mean streets of the East End, Mia follows the meager clues as she uncovers them. It seems she hasn't hidden herself so well, after all, when her old acquaintances are able to track her activities at will.
The more the past encroaches upon the present, Mia is less able to deny the reality of her situation the two worlds of her life are not nearly as separate as she believed. For all its good manners, the upper-class indulges in the same vices as the poor, if with a bit more discretion. Subtlety not her strong point, Mia awakens some sleeping giants best left alone, sending a ripple of violence from Fleet Street to the mean streets.
The author surrounds the mysterious deaths of Mia's family with the trappings of class, either the lifestyle of her formative years or the more realistic drudgery and daily danger of those who coexist in poverty. But this plot is frequently implausible and loses direction midway through. Finally, the convoluted storyline is a bit tedious for all the sociological contrasts between rich and poor; even Mia's blundering attempts to solve a crime on her own is inordinately clumsy. Considerable effort goes into tying this story together, from MP's to common criminals and terrorists, a bit of romance interspersed to lighten the dismal atmosphere of Mia's world. The author's best intentions are obvious, but his protagonist cannot quite manage the weight of this plot, handicapped by her youth and consequent indiscretion. Luan Gaines/2004.
You may not have heard of this one, but it is an intriguing thriller about Mia, whose happy life and high flying career are destroyed when a bomb rips through her family home. She flees to gritty East London and starts over, all the while trying to figure out who ripped apart her life and why. Original and suspenseful.
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