| |  | Author: Marian Keyes
Publisher: Avon a
Category: Book
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  89 reviews
Sales Rank: 3424659
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0061124044
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780061124044
ASIN: 0061124044
Publication Date: April 2009 (In 120 Days)
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 Liked October 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Liked book. Sad. Funny parts (loved Aunt Bid). Not like way Lola talks. Found confusing. Scared would start talking same way. Paddy nice fizzog but monster. Should gone jail. He real badger's a---.
Brilliant book! October 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
No disappointment, great book. Marian Keyes is still the best.Can't wait for her next novel.
 fantastic October 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
the best book i've ever read.could not put it down until finished it.very different from her other books. the plot is very interisting. four characters four stories all connected. one great story about life love domestic violence,great friends. you must read it. it is unique.
 not up to standard October 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this as soon as it came out in hardback as I had enjoyed all the author's previous novels. However I found this book slow and heavy, half the time I wasn't sure who was 'talking' and I don't feel the characters were as crafted as I had come to expect from this author. I actually gave up about half way through the book as I had totally lost interest.
 Keyes Gone Off the Boil October 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good God, what has happened to Marian Keyes? Most of her novels were wonderful. Characters like you and me, making their way through rainy Mondays in a crap job, visiting their crazy family on weekends and wondering why the man you like never, ever likes you back. They were such a good laugh. But now she's trying to be a 'serious' writer and it doesn't work because she's just going for the shock factor. Anybody could write something disgusting about a man beating up or raping a woman. It requires no talent to write graphically. Subtlety is another matter. I bought this at a jumble sale for a dollar, and I'm going to throw it away. I also threw away her novel before this one, which was all about a newlywed whose husband had died in a car accident and the main protagonist had her fingernails ripped off. I too could make up improbable and disgusting injuries. Again, nothing talented about that. If she continues to write this pretentious crap littered with depressing and stomach-churning gore, I will certainly never bother with her books again. And it's only got a star because the system won't let me submit with no stars. Keyes, people pick up your books to be entertained, not totally depressed and frightened. Learn that.
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