The Chainmakers edition by Helen Spring Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
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Set against the blistering heat and grinding poverty of the chainshops of the Black Country in the Midlands of England, this compelling love story charts the struggle of young Anna Gibson to forge a new life from the remnants of betrayal by her lover and a tragic marriage of convenience.
A simple offer of work as a model proves to be the catalyst for complete change, taking Anna from the sunny beaches and liberal attitudes of an artist's colony in Brittany to the struggle to survive and make good in the immigrant community of downtown New York.
Anna learns her lessons well, and she finds herself still making chains, but now chains of restaurants, leading to wealth if not happiness. Then comes Prohibition, and Anna's decisions involve her in a gangland feud which threatens her family and friends in a frightening web of intrigue and violence.
How do we recover from a lover's betrayal? What is true love anyway?
Can we befriend lawbreakers without getting hurt?
These questions are at the core of this unusual and compelling book. Written with humour, colour and passion, Helen Spring weaves an absorbing tale of obsession and complex emotions, and their far-reaching consequences.
The Chainmakers edition by Helen Spring Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
This is an enjoyable read, even for those who don't usually partake of this genre. The plot is well crafted and the characters are real people. Historical research is evident. The author has captured a sense of place and time that is persuasive. Having visited most of the places mentioned, I found the descriptions realistic. I will admit that I found the Black Country dialect slow going in some of the dialogue, but it sounded authentic. The author fails to set off names in direct address with commas, which I found distracting, but overall,the editing is good and does not detract from the story line. I had to adjust my schedule so that I could read it in one long session. I wanted to find out what happened, which reveals that this reader was engaged, the mark of a great book.Product details
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The Chainmakers edition by Helen Spring Health Fitness Dieting eBooks Reviews
love the twist n turns. the main character was very believable and the supporting character. wish there was a part two.
I’ll get the bad out of the way first. I hated the font and was unable to change it on my Paperwhite, there were formatting errors for a page or two in the middle of the book, and for some reason I’ll was commonly written as I’11 which drove me crazy. There were some niggling errors in the beginning of the New York part of the story. For example, no immigrant would ever say, “the dimly lit bar in downtown New York” they would have said Greenwich Village or Hell’s Kitchen or whatever. But none of these issues was, to me, so bad that that I couldn’t enjoy the book.
Anna is a poor girl in the Black Country (black from industrial soot) in England. She gets involved with a man who dumps her. She marries someone else and moves to New York and gets rich.
I loved the characters. Loved the Black Country dialect, although I have no idea whatsoever if it is at all accurate. The story has a nice satisfying arc to it.
I especially liked that the women in this book are shown as working all their lives. I get so sick of people saying that women didn’t work before the women’s movement. Women have always worked and worked hard. They just didn’t get paid the way men did.
Why am I only giving this three stars? Well, I thought Anna’s realization at the end was just too abrupt...All of a sudden she realizes she loves Casey--I thought it should have been better foreshadowed. I think Anna or Casey should have been more devastated by not having “babbies”, so that their happiness at the end made more sense. Yes, at some point she says she works because of not having babies, but it was a throwaway line, not something that sounded real. I think they got rich way too easy. Yeah, people got rich in NY, but generally it took years. I thought she should have said something about Casey wanting an education, but being too poor in England. That he wanted to go to college in NY was just out of the blue, even though he had a good reason for it.
I understand that this is a first novel. I read this because I just loved Strands of Gold which is much, much better--the author is growing in her craft. I generally don’t like books about the middle ages, but I am seriously thinking of reading Ms. Spring’s Welsh tale and will for sure read the sequel to this work.
I really enjoyed "The Chainmakers"; it's very different from other period dramas I've read. The premise of the tale is quite imaginative, and Spring does a remarkable job of portraying the lives of the working poor who toiled as chainmakers. From there, the story takes several twists and turns, moving from England's chain mills to an artists' colony in the French countryside to the New World -- where the protagonists pursue the "American dream". Overall, I thought the book was outstanding. I did find the "Black Country" dialect to be rather distracting -- in many cases, I had to slog through the dialog trying to figure out what the characters were saying. (It took me a while to figure out what a "glede" was.) Those passages dragged down the otherwise smooth flow of the story. I also found myself getting annoyed with the lead character's naivete and self-absorption in matters of the heart. But on the whole, I found this to be a worthwhile read and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Helen Spring is a true storyteller!
99 percent of this book flows through your eyes and into your mind as easily and comfortably as the thoughts of a daydream. The author writes with enough skill that 99 percent of the time you read and believe the fiction as fact, like you’re the proverbial fly on the wall absorbing it all.
Her characters are distinct, complex, and layered with maturity as the story progresses. She has villains with redeeming graces and heroes with faults, and she portrays both in wholly believable fashion. She made me care about what happened to the characters not simply out of curiosity but because I LIKED them as if they were real people, my friends or acquaintances in real life. That’s a neat trick, and it is books like this one that fuel a reader’s desire to search out another good book. This is why I’ve been telling friends who like to read to give this author a try whether or not her books are in their favorite genre.
This is an enjoyable read, even for those who don't usually partake of this genre. The plot is well crafted and the characters are real people. Historical research is evident. The author has captured a sense of place and time that is persuasive. Having visited most of the places mentioned, I found the descriptions realistic. I will admit that I found the Black Country dialect slow going in some of the dialogue, but it sounded authentic. The author fails to set off names in direct address with commas, which I found distracting, but overall,the editing is good and does not detract from the story line. I had to adjust my schedule so that I could read it in one long session. I wanted to find out what happened, which reveals that this reader was engaged, the mark of a great book.
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