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I remember vaguely of loving the mini series adaptation of The Potato Factory that I thought I must read the book. However, one particular scene traumatised me so much, (view spoiler), that it’s taken me forever and a day to pick this up and I still skip that scene in the book! I couldn’t handle it… I found that aside from that scene, I don’t actually remember anything else from the mini series so I don’t know whether that was a good sign or not but at
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Great book, my favorite one of the series. A lot of good detail of London and early Australia. It reminds you of Oliver Twist, but you're not sure if there will be a happy ending.
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potato factory was a very long book and took me quite sometime to read. through the story the protagonist ikey Solomon was fond of saying leave a little salt on the bread and in the true nature of this quote Bryce Courtney did the same when he left this story on a cliffhanger leaving the reader to want more. looking forward to the sequel in this saga.
An interesting tale, with some grisly details. While I do like strong female characters, it did feel like some of the personalities were a bit modern for the time in which the book was set.
