Tales of the Notorious Hudson Family

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Our Vinnie: The True Story of Yorkshire's Notorious Criminal Family Publisher's Summary

The infamous Canterbury Estate in Bradford, a hotbed of crime, drink and drugs, was a law unto itself in the '70s.

So when one of their own was wronged in any way, the community always had its own way of dealing with it.

The first title in a series of gritty family sagas, Our Vinnie accounts the dramatic true story of a brother's determination to avenge his younger sister's rape. Josie was just 11 when her Vinnie, then 14, was taken away to a detention centre. Distraught by his absence and left alone with indifferent parents, when she escapes from one of their rows she naively enters the house of a neighbour, Melvin, who - horrifically - leads her upstairs and overpowers her.

Convinced by her friend Carol, Josie tells her sister Lyndsey about the rape but, with Vinnie out of the picture, Lyndsey uses the information for her own ends. When Vinnie returns, hardened by years inside the system, his outrage on discovering the truth is severe. And with new abuses continually coming to light, a cataclysmic series of violent events begins to spiral out of control…

Dramatic and shocking, Our Vinnie is an unbelievable page-turner, documenting a community forsaken by society, and one brother's unrelenting determination to take justice into his own hands.

©2014 Julie Shaw (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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    • Tales of the Notorious Hudson Family, Book 3
    • By: Julie Shaw
    • Narrated by: Jim Millea
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-2014
    • Language: English
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    • Blood Ties: Family Is Not Always a Place of Safety

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    • Tales of the Notorious Hudson Family, Book 5
    • By: Julie Shaw
    • Narrated by: Nigel Peever
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 14-07-2016
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    • Tales of the Notorious Hudson Family, Book 6
    • By: Julie Shaw
    • Narrated by: Chloe Massey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-2017
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    • When the past comes back to haunt you
    • By: Julie Shaw
    • Narrated by: Jonathan McGarrity
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-2018
    • Language: English
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