![]() The fact that Aidan doesn't appear to be answering her e-mails or phone-calls, however, hints at something dire. Physically scarred and sadder than "the hungry babies in Angela's Ashes", she lies on her parents' Dublin sofa with only one thing on her mind - getting back to New York: which means her best friends, her job (working as a beauty PR for an East Village cosmetics company) and above all her husband, Aidan. In a blockbuster that avoids the usual pitfalls - sloppy language, unrealistic characters, unlikely coincidences - Keyes's confronts a subject that worries readers more than men and bad-hair days: how we will cope when someone close to us dies.Īnna Walsh, the novel's narrator, is officially a wreck. Her latest novel, however, shows just how flexible a genre chick-lit can be. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a previous novel, The Other Side of the Story, the bestselling novelist Marian Keyes bemoaned the fact that writers of popular fiction are rarely taken seriously by the literary world. ![]()
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