I echo everything thats been said by other five star reviews and applaud this author's talent for the fine interweaving of all the threads involved.

Again, the events of the book are still with me days after finishing them they were such a compelling read and I cannot recommend it enough. The characters are engaging, the streets scenes cinematic and the theme of the novel powerful' The Times . This secret is so dangerous that her mother, Maura, and the redoubtable Kathleen, her best friend Nellie’s grandmother, decide the girls must be spirited away quietly to Ireland to await the birth of the baby. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.This story started very slowly and did jump from one set of people to another so was difficult to keep track of who was who. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. But there's more than one reference to blue and white Panda police cars which did not appear on the streets until the mid 1960's.

I do not often purchase books as there are so many good "freebies", but this one was worth it and part 3 is a must have. However, unlike the first book which centred only around this area, in this book the story goes back and forwards to Ireland as we follow Kitty and her story. As a child, my Irish grandmother, Nellie Deane, would often whisk me away to her rural village on the west coast of Ireland and immerse me in the scent of raw peat and Holy Smoke.This gripping follow on from the bestselling The Four Streets finds the community alive with rumours and gossip after the murder which rocked it to the core. Fourteen-year-old Kitty Doherty, pregnant with the dead man's child, is a danger to everyone who needs to keep the secret. As for the nuns and priests, even though there are often media reports of the wrongdoinsg of the priesthood, mostly in the past, I find it hard to believe in any civilised country the abbey nuns could have treated the girls so badly. This is another gripping read which I just could not put down (like the other books in the trilogy, I read each one in a day they were that good) and I was so desperate to find out what would happen I stayed up way past my bedtime. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

My only concern was that at times I found it hard to believe this was the early sixties as it seemed to be more 50's. This was the first of this series I had tried and the attitude of some of the priests and nuns is so absolutely what I can imagine. She spent part of her childhood living on a farm with her grandmother, and attended school in a small remote village in the west of Ireland. She trained as a nurse, then followed with a successful career in which she established and then sold her own business.

I almost gave up reading but later on it became very interesting and involved, it still jumped about but by this time I had become used to the drift of it and could keep track better. She has been MP for Mid Bedfordshire since 2005, and is presently serving as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It follows on from the four streets and it isn't just a story, it involves a typical Irish close knit community and the problems that go along side it! I thoroughly enjoyed the first book and read it in a couple of days and I became totally absorbed by the story and the characters.

I also was so glad that "Kitty" found her inner strength and herself, as I was dreading her crumbling under the cruelty of the regime in the laundry run by the nuns.After listening to 'The Four Streets', I had to know more and find out what happens next in the lives of the characters. HIDE HER NAME is the gripping sequel to Nadine Dorries's first bestseller, THE FOUR STREETS, shot through with darkness, but also filled with humour, warmth and charm.