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    The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane: A Novel
    The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane: A Novel
    The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane: A Novel
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane: A Novel

    Written by Colin Falconer

    Narrated by Alana Kerr Collins

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    About this audiobook

    When fiery and idealistic Kitty O’Kane escapes the crushing poverty of Dublin’s tenements, she’s determined that no one should ever suffer like she did. As she sets out to save the world, she finds herself at the forefront of events that shaped the early twentieth century. While working as a maid, she survives the sinking of the Titanic. As a suffragette in New York’s Greenwich Village, she’s jailed for breaking storefront windows. And traveling war-torn Europe as a journalist, she’s at the Winter Palace when it’s stormed by the Bolsheviks. Ultimately she returns to her homeland to serve as a nurse in the Irish Civil War.

    During Kitty’s remarkable journey, she reunites with her childhood sweetheart, Tom Doyle, but Tom doesn’t know everything about her past—a past that continues to haunt her. Will Kitty accept that before she can save everyone else, she needs to find a way to save herself? Or will the sins of her past stop her from pursuing her own happiness?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 1, 2017
    ISBN9781543630343
    The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane: A Novel
    Author

    Colin Falconer

    Colin Falconer has written over twenty novels, mainly historical fiction and crime. His work is enjoyed by a wide audience and has so far been translated into twenty-three languages. Though his roots are in his native London, he now lives in Australia.

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    • 5/5
      A very nice and easy book to read I would recommend
    • 3/5
      "Kitty O'Kane dreamed of a kind husband and a just life; what she had was haddock water for supper and a dribble of her own blood, seen at close quarters, on the toe of her father's scuffed boot"

      Heartbreaking stuff am I right? It pulled me in and had such high hopes for Kitty, but somewhere around the halfway point it all fell apart for me. From a bright, poverty stricken Irish girl with a simple dream that she could have easily achieved Kitty changed into someone I just didn't like very much. After surviving the sinking of the Titanic it seemed as if Kitty more let herself be manipulated into wanting to become a journalist than actually following her own dreams. Somehow even though she was the girl who wanted to fight for women's rights she let herself be dependent upon and manipulated by men.
      I did enjoy the historical references but I had different expectations of this book.


      I received a complimentary copy for review
    • 3/5
      A fast read which partial based on a real journalist but very unrealistic; think Forrest Grump meets Ernest Hemingway's journalist wife. A dirt poor Irish girl who survives two historic luxury liner sinking who learns to read and write practically overnight. Her writing was published all over the world.The story is not without romance and ends with happily-ever-after.
    • 4/5
      Quite the adventure even if very improbable. Enjoyable listen as an audio version of the book. Well researched and well written. Recommended for a light read.