Marian Keyes is back to her best ( The Daily Express)Ī modern fairy tale, it's full of Keyes's self-deprecating wit ( The Sunday Mirror) Romantic and uplifting it won't fail to put a smile on your face. One of those rare books that will swallow up your day without realising it. Keyes manages to have you alternately blubbing and belly-laughing to the final page ( Company) Not only is it a great story with funny, loveable characters, it made me laugh out loud ( Stylist) Keyes gives popular fiction a good name ( Independent on Sunday)įull of twists and turns, with warmth and humour on every page, it doesn't disappoint ( Closer)Ī smart new drama from the awesome Marian Keyes ( Heat) On the day she gives birth to her first child, Claire Walsh's husband James tells her he's been having an affair and now's the right time to leave her.
'Failed relationships can be describe as so much wasted makeup. Watermelon, Marian Keyes's very first novel, tells the extremely funny and wonderfully touching tale of a woman who thought she had it all - until the day she discovers that it's all gone. The author's style is too blunt and her setting too suburban (with its all-too-human heroine struggling to keep her sanity, tend to her new-born baby, fight it out with siblings and begin to love again) to be a traditional romance, but there is enough chemistry and mystery to keep you guessing in the lip-smacking Watermelon-a dish that may not fill you up but will certainly give you a taster of Marian Keyes' work, of which there is much to sample, including Lucy Sullivan is getting Married, Rachel's Holiday and Last Chance Saloon. Claire, the deserted wife and mother, returns to her family in Dublin and, after going through the required stages of "Loss, Loneliness, Hopelessness and Humiliation", begins to feel much better-so much better that when James tries to win his way back into her affections, he gets more than he bargained for.
Marian Keyes begins Watermelon with a rather inauspicious romantic opening when the heroine's husband leaves her for Denise from the flat downstairs the day their first child is born.
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