About this title: A bestseller in Ireland, this wild and humorous novel is the story of Claire Webster, who is dumped by her husband after the birth of their daughter. She flees to Dublin, where her eccentric family take her in, and finds a new lover. Then her husband wants to come back.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Avon Books
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780380796090ISBN:0380796090
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 434 p. Audience: General/trade. mmp r4, shelf wear to cover, name inside read more
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
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"I tried to get into this book but in the end threw it to the wall. I don't know what it is about this author's books but I just cannot get into them.
Back Cover Blurb: It's bad enough that Claire's husband James left her the day he was at the birth of their first child - I mean, if he thought it was going to upset him that much he should have just stayed at home - but to rub salt into the episiotomy, he didn't even have the decency to leave her for someone skinny! He's just absconded, leaving Claire with a newborn baby, a broken heart, two extra stone and an...er....birth canal ten times its normal size. in the absence of any better offers, Claire goes home to her family. To her beautiful sister Helen, her soap-watching mother, her bewildered father. And in a story that's both hilarious and bitter-sweet, Claire gets better. A lot better. In fact so much better that when James slithers back into her life he's in for a bit of a surprise."
"I almost had to put this one down, likely never to be heard from again, but I decided to power through and I'm glad I did. My problem was the lack characters with ANY redeeming qualities. I don't expect to like every protagonist in a book like this, but generally I can be thankful that she has a wise older sister who sets her straight or a foul-mouthed best friend who sticks up for her no matter what. This book doesn't have any of it. Claire's friends are useless, she's a mess, and her family is just plain dreadful.
Once I decided to stop focusing on my dislike of every single person in the book and just let the story unfold, it got considerably better. For the most part I enjoyed the writing. It was witty and a first person narrative always gives you a personal look inside the narrator's (and likely the author's) head. Occasionally I found myself irritated with Claire and wishing she would stop conversing with her nightgown and just go to bed already so the chapter could end. The conversations in her head with inanimate objects were at times just a little too much for me.
In the end Claire figures it all out, gets her head on straight and left me realizing that, okay, maybe she isn't so bad after all. Who am I judge the actions of the recently dumped? Perhaps I was a little hasty in my initial assessment."
"Claire is a very happy woman. She left Dublin to move to London, found a job of which her mother thinks nothing and met the man of he life. It couldn't go better when she gets married to him and is now getting their child. Besides that the day their daughter is born he tells her in the hospital room that he is leaving her. She goes home to her family in Dublin and from there on it eally gets great! Marian Keyes manages to write in a way that makes you fly through the story without realizing. SHe wrote stories fromt he view of each daughter of this very realistic Irish famiy and again this one is as great as the other one, Angel, I rea. Maybe it is even better. I loved it and read it in less than a day, even if it was over 400 or 500 pages."
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