EXCERPT: February fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me. As he was present at the birth, I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a newborn daughter, a broken heart, and

This is chick-lit, so you can't come in thinking it will be masterfully written. That said, this was worse than most. I picked it up because it was recommended and looked like a quick read. It was even quicker than expected, because I was able to skip a huge portion of the angst at the beginning and jump directly to the climax. The premise of the book is that Claire's husband announces his affair and their separation on the day that Claire has their baby. The break-up of her marriage leaves Clai...

I picked this book up after I finished Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married. Like Lucy Sullivan, I enjoyed Marian Keyes chatty style. Reading this book feels like a chat with a friend and I found that I got to know the main character very well. Marian Keyes excels at character development. As you probably know, this story is about Claire, a 29 year old Irish woman living in London. A few hours after she gave birth, her husband James announces that he doesn't love her anymore and that he is leaving h...

It's not a perfect novel but it was the right amount of sillyness and fluff I was craving at the moment and wasn't really looking for something to be taking seriously in this book. I tought this was fun and enjoyable for what it was and I'm tempted to read more by Marian Keyes now, even though I havnt liked the others I've read or tried to read. But I want to give her another chance.

Dnf’ed at 30% I couldn’t take her constantly talking about drinking and ignoring her newborn daughter 🙃 however, it was funny at parts and I liked the setting of Ireland but not enough to finish it

i have never read a book by this author. chicklit is not really my thing, but i thought, why not? i have heard so much about her books, so i thought i would check it out. it's a great way for a palette cleanser in between 'heavy' books. i really enjoyed it - it was light and endearing. i will definitely read more of her books.

I don't know exactly how I feel about this book. On one hand, I enjoyed the story. I am strangely drawn to stories of wives being unexpectedly dumped by their husbands. I suppose it's because I imagine it as one of the worst things that could happen to a woman (aside from the death of loved ones or contracting a fatal disease, etc). Anyway, I liked the story and I find the Walsh family utterly charming. I think Marian Keyes has a particular style that is amusing and absorbing. She goes beyond th...

DNF.I don't usually give up on books.In fact, I can't recall when I last gave up on one. It might have been some assigned reading way back when.But this one, I just couldn't get into.I read a lot of praise and recommendations of Keyes, so I had high hopes. And I tried. God knows I tried.But I couldn't.I hated the style.(This review is an attempt at approximation of the style.)It made my eyes bleed.It made my brain hurt.But I perservered. Surely the characters will be interesting, at least.At 33%...

I am quite random myself, skipping from subject to subject without segways, but Keyes takes it to another level. I just felt like yelling "get to the point!". Some of Claire's inner dialog was funny, but by page 30 I was skipping over large chunks to get to the actual moving plot line of the book. A couldn't whole heartedly recommend this to anyone looking for a mindless chick book that is a quick read, cause it was too annoying to be mindless. Marian Keyes came highly recommended too, but I don...

1 Stars Watermelon follow's our protagonist Claire as she is left by her husband James for her downstairs neighbour, about 2 minutes after giving birth to their daughter. She soon after takes her newborn child back to her eccentric family so she can lick her wounds in the comfort of her old home and thus meets a new younger man named Adam. To say Claire is an embarrassing wet drip of woman is putting it lightly. She spends 40% of this way too long novel in a depression slump where she neglects

Opening Line:” ”I’m sorry, you must think I’m very rude. We’ve hardly even been introduced and here I am telling you all about the terrible things that have happened to me.”Claire thought she had the perfect life right up until her husband James announced that he didn’t love her anymore and was leaving her for another woman. He might have picked a better day to deliver this earth shattering news than directly after the birth of their first child. Shocked, heartbroken and now packing some serious...

I don't think I've ever been so glad to finish a book. Of course I wasn't expecting this to be a literary masterpiece but I thought being to some degree enjoyable wouldn't have been too much to ask. The premise is probably standard for a chick-lit novel - a woman's husband tells her he's been having an affair for six months and is leaving her the day she gives birth to their first child. But that all happens within the first few pages and it seems that nothing else of much interest occurs in the...

My second by Marian Keyes and I adore her world. It's so 90-ties, that to me it is a sentimental journey. Yes, some views outdated, but such was the western world at the end of the XX century. Many, many other views and observations are still valid. Everyone had their own worries. Nobody was perfectly happy there was no Relationship Fairy Claire and her struggels were so human it hurt. She was far from being perfect. I would have never behaved like her, but I am sure there are many women w...

So I have all of the Walsh Family books in paperback. I haven't read them in years, but decided to take the first two for a whirl this weekend. And now I wonder if I read this years ago and liked Claire or what? Cause Claire drives me a bit insane in this book. And when you read about how she changes over the course of the series, she ends up being the Walsh sister I dislike the most (tied with Helen and her book, "The Mystery of Mercy Close"). So good things I can say, the re-read went by fast