Anna and Aidan were in a car accident in which Aidan died. Against the advice of her four sisters - characters who have appeared in previous novels - she returns to Manhattan, where the truth is slowly revealed. Read 1,790 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The fact that Aidan doesn't appear to be answering her e-mails or phone-calls, however, hints at something dire. Shes covered in bandages and shes lying in her parents Good Front Room dreaming of leaving Dublin and getting back to New. Desperate to go back to New York and resume her normal life, she soon packs up her bags and returns to her job in beauty PR for punk cosmetics brand Candy Grrrl. 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. She has the best job in the world, a lovely apartment, and great friends. In this, Life in the Big Apple is perfect for Anna. Just an amazing book and I loved every word, sentence and paragraph and couldn't wait to hear more and now I am really sad that I have finished reading it.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. Bestselling author Marian Keyes has delighted readers with the lives, loves, and foibles of the irrepressible Walsh sisters and their eccentric mammy. It has had me laughing until I thought my sides would split and tears of laughter were carousing down my face as well as crying soon after with tears of sadness spilling down my face. But as the novel opens she's back in the family home in Dublin, recovering from serious injuries from an accident that has left her face scarred and her husband absent. If you want a really good book that you will recommend to all your book-loving friends then this is the one for you. The fourth of Marian Keyes' Walsh family novels features Anna,transformed from the dippy hippie of earlier novels into a hard-charging PR woman in NYC.
It is both sad and hilarious at the same time and every emotion you have ever felt comes spilling out with her in everything she does from work to play, from despair to acceptance from Ireland to New York. The book opens up with Anna Walsh, who is the main character of this book, recovering from some kind of episode, for want of a better word (I won't spoil this for you by telling you what kind of episode), in Ireland with her family. What a book! I can honestly say I have not enjoyed a book this much since I can't remember when. Didn't know what I was letting myself in for
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