The earlier two Walsh sister novels didn't really have stand-out plots, but to be fair, they didn't need stand-out plots. Up until the day I left my husband and then ran away to Hollywood, I'd hardly ever put a foot wrong. Y también es el momento en que suelto la última novela de Marian Keyes después de doce horas de lectura compulsiva, como sabía que sucedería (siempre lo hace) y por lo que no vacilo nunca al sacarla de la estantería. She thinks it will be good to get away for awhile, although she has some ulterior motivation involving an old boyfriend who frequents the Hollywood scene. This is an oldie but goodie I had in my shelves that I came across when I was waiting for a library book to come in.

Maggie should be enjoying herself but she can't stop thinking about her husband Garv and the life she's run away from. People tell me I'm not going to win the Booker, and that's true," Keyes has said, "but there are different ways of having one's work validated. Marian Keyes seems to succeed the most with her novels when she focuses on one of the Walsh sisters from Ireland. Devastated, she decides the only thing to do is to run for the shelter of her best friend, Emily, who lives in Los Angeles.

This was a book that had no plot, a repetitive (though entertaining) protagonist who's just like every other Marian Keyes protagonist I've read, and that was okay but nothing special. Her journalism, collected under two titles, Making It Up As I Go Along and Under the Duvet: Deluxe Edition , containing the original publications Under the Duvet and Further Under the Duvet , are also available from Penguin. The third book in the series about the Welsh family tells the story of when Maggie, 'the sensible and responsible one' arrives at a turning point in her life. The first novel I ever read of hers was Watermelon, a novel about a woman whose husband leaves her the day after she births their first child.

Las cuatro de la madrugada es el momento más desapacible del ser humano, cuando tenemos más bajo el ánimo. But ever since that business with the rabbits, and possibly even before that, things with Garv had been uncomfortable and weird. This subplot does contribute something to Emily's characterization, but gets resolved in the "where-are-they-now" epilogue, where we get a brief recap of the resolution. Pero eso es lo que pasa al leer la última línea cuando aún llevas la mitad de la novela, que te falta media película, y esa media película es de la que Marian, como tantas otras veces antes, se ha servido para meterme en el bolsillo.We are almost a third of the way through the novel before she begins to explain why her marriage to the equally perfect Garv went wrong, why she has eczema attacks that leave her with a bloody rash, why she is obsessed by an old boyfriend, and why she is so touchy on the subject of children. The multimillion copy, internationally bestselling author of some of the most widely loved, genre-defying novels of the past thirty years – including Rachel’s Holiday, Anybody Out There and Grown Ups – has millions of devoted readers around the world.