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Niagara (The Pankhearst Singles Club Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Evangeline Jennings (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Eleanor's life is rushing headlong towards the falls. Can she find a way to save herself?

A modern immorality tale wrapped around a whodunnit set in a no-name Northern English post-industrial town, NIAGARA is the first release of the Pankhearst Singles Club. Small, but perfectly formed.
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    36 pages
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    English
  3. Publication date
    January 1, 2014
  4. File size
    104 KB
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"The first installment in the Pankhearst Singles Club series, this 'novel in 10,000 words' is a grimly powerful dark whodunnit, absolutely not for everyone (trigger warnings for rape, violence and domestic abuse) but nevertheless distinctive, disturbing and impossible to put down." -- Jane Bradley, Founding Editor For Books' Sake

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00HNEDDW8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Starshy (January 1, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 104 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 36 pages
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    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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Evangeline Jennings

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Evangeline Jennings is an unreliable narrator. She tells lies for fun and profit. Mostly fun.

If Evangeline was a song - and she'd really like to be, she'd be "Public Image" by PiL or possibly "You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore.

Born and raised in Liverpool, where they invented football and popular music, she now lives in Austin, Texas. The black sheep of her family, she comes from a long line of Californian beauty queens on her mother's side. As she so often says, Northern Scum, Southern Belle.

Evangeline watches an awful lot of movies and TV. During the break she cooks popcorn and writes stories about revenge.

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  • stevekohlhagen
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Brave New Concept From a Very Creative Writer
    Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2014
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    Evangeline Jennings, et. al. wrote the stunning "Cars and Girls," pushing themselves into a traditionally male workplace: tough heroes with guns and cars and bad guys and "badder" heroes, who just happened to be, well, heroines instead of heroes!

    And now Ms. Jennings, in the first novella in her brave, new concept, lets go of childish things, namely the cars and the guns. She now brings us Shakespeare and despicable men instead. The first view of what she calls "The Pankhearst Singles Club" promises monthly novellas and short stories. If the rest are this good, she may have started and be on to something very, very special.

    Here, in "Niagara," Ms. Jennings introduces a vengeful, Oedipal, fully developed heroine (well, not exactly a heroine) to the world. In a dark world of modern day England, a world of little hope and dwindling options, she brings us characters coping best they can, until....well, you'll have to see for yourself. The title of this piece remains a mystery, at least to me. Does it refer to the inexorable tug of the falls pulling us all to possibly unavoidable ends? Or to the 1953 film noir of the same name, where the surviving heroine is presumably stronger for what didn't kill her? Maybe somebody will bring us the answer in one of the forthcoming monthly "Pankhearst Singles Club" novellas? That's certainly something to look forward to!

    In fairness, I should add that this work is "not for everyone." There is explicit sex, virtually all non-consensual, and certainly all non-romantic, and men insecure in their masculinity and intimacy relationships will probably be at best unenthusiastic about "Niagara."
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  • R. closser
    4.0 out of 5 stars Full disclosure this short isn't for everyone. It is ...
    Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2014
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    Full disclosure this short isn't for everyone. It is graphic, but it's very truthful. We're put into the middle of a life of a woman who is desperately trying to escape her horrendous situation. I won't go into details on how she plans to escape her situation, because doing so would reveal spoilers. I finished this in nearly one sitting.
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  • LibraryFine
    5.0 out of 5 stars Niagara
    Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2014
    I discovered Evangeline Jennings in the Pankhearst collaboration Cars and Girls, and I was keen to see what she'd do next.

    Niagara is about Ellie, a woman determined to escape her brutal marriage. Her husband uses violence and poverty to trap her, but Ellie has a plan.

    Through the routine cruelty Ellie suffers, Jennings shows the relentless misery of an ordinary life. Some of the violence is difficult to read, and it’s made more unsettling set against chicken for dinner and a walk to the library. As Ellie helps her daughter with her homework upstairs, her son and husband fight viciously downstairs.

    And as Ellie makes her plan to leave this ordinary life, the story raises a number of questions. Is violence passed through the generations? What influence can women have, and how can deprivation or education change their lives? The story gives a possible set of answers, but also suggests to me that not only is it difficult to make changes, it can be equally hard to judge their success.

    It’s both easy and impossible to have sympathy with Ellie. Her questionable morality gives a surprising twist, and the reader must decide for herself if what Ellie does is justified. Niagara is also – somehow – funny, with some brilliant northern dialogue and the darkest humour.
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  • col2910
    4.0 out of 5 stars Another cracking short story!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2015
    Another tale of domestic discontent – a mother trapped in an abusive marriage, but with sufficient resolve and steel to plot and plan for a time when she can flee the nest. Just as soon as the jam jar secreted in the attic forms a big enough stake.

    She walks 4 miles to town and trousers the £1.20 bus fare. Reluctantly taking the bus back, because she’s laden down with the groceries. She puts the squirreled fare in the jar. She takes another pound from the loose change in her husband’s trousers while he sleeps off the drink. She puts it in the jar. The jar grows, but she fears its discovery.

    She takes small minuscule liberties when she can and relishes the private victories.

    When her teenage delinquent, drug-dealing son starts using his own merchandise and begins replicating his father’s behaviour towards Ellie; departure day just got that much closer.

    Mother and daughter flee, leaving behind the men-folk to battle it out – which they do.

    Fast forward a few years and Ellie and daughter have fashioned a new life. Imperfect, it may well be, but more on her own terms. Ellie’s a survivor. As she looks back, there are regrets and a shock for this reader at least.

    Another satisfying tale from Miss Jennings.

    4 from 5

    Thanks to the author for the Pankhurst single.
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  • Angelika Rust
    5.0 out of 5 stars this woman can write
    Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2014
    I could go on all day about how much I liked the story, how I admire the author's understanding of the workings of the human mind and all that.
    Or I could just say that it kept me up half the night, because I read it in one go despite the fact that the sensible part of me knew I had to get up very early.
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  • Angelika Rust
    5.0 out of 5 stars this woman can write
    Reviewed in Germany on April 12, 2014
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    I could go on all day about how much I liked the story, how I admire the author's understanding of the workings of the human mind and all that.
    Or I could just say that it kept me up half the night, because I read it in one go despite the fact that the sensible part of me knew I had to get up very early.
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  • Jry
    5.0 out of 5 stars really enjoyed it
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2014
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    Really enjoyed and found I couldn't put it down. Wanted more when it got to the end. Will def read more of hers.
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  • Suchea
    4.0 out of 5 stars A gritty story
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2014
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    The main character here has to survive a grim situation, but one which a lot of women find themselves in. An interesting twist ending here.
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