Angels

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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. First it seemed like in the book Maggie's and Garv's marriage broke down because they were simply tired of each other or something as shallow, but during the book it turned out there was a lot more to it. Unlike many chick-lit type books that portray the heroine’s ex as wholly unlikable, Garv comes across as a sweet, real man who has simply made some mistakes in his life. Maggie ran from Ireland to LA, to take refuge with her bestie, Emily after being cheated on by her husband. No deja de ser un libro escrito en 2002 y plagado de referencias culturales de Los Angeles e Irlanda, zonas con las que no estoy muy familiarizada, pero su humor ácido, su frescura y espontaneidad siguen siendo para todos los públicos y no falla en sus intentos por arrancarme una carcajada de madrugada.

I'm making it sound much more dramatic than it actually was, which is strange because I never used to have a penchant for dramatics. 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. Over 22 million copies of her novels have been sold worldwide and her books have been translated into 32 languages.We get to hear Margaret's side of the story, which is great after seeing her sidelined as the 'boring' one in all the other books. Most unexpectedly of all,she finds that just because her marriage is over,it doesn't mean her life is. A few years ago I read a few Marian Keyes books and I couldn’t remember which ones I had read from the blurb on the back… Probably not a good sign. 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. Hace un buen tiempo no me pasaba eso de dejar un libro, y menos cuando le había dado tiempo para que me convenciera.

Marian Keyes is the international bestselling author of Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other Side of the Story, Anybody Out There, This Charming Man, The Brightest Star in the Sky, The Mystery of Mercy Close and The Woman Who Stole My Life. Angels is written with sensitivity and spunk, a combination that has really seemed to work for Keyes’ books in which the Walsh sisters appear. Seré breve, porque los halagos hacia Marian siempre son los mismos, y las quejas, más bien escasas: me ha envuelto al principio y luego me ha ido desinflando, pero hasta que no me ha convencido del todo, no me ha dejado rendirme con él.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. 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. They are on the verge of breaking up as they have barely spoken to each other for months and seem to have some underlying problems that we don’t know about until later on in the book. She's the third of Marian Keyes's most famous literary characters, the Walsh sisters, to be the protagonist of her own novel. Nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens for FAR too long, mostly because the main character doesn't want anything, so she's not trying to do anything, so you get endless descriptions of her pointless days of hanging out.

This is a book that has too many characters, and they're as poorly fleshed-out as you'd expect from L.

That's how the sisters describe Maggie the protagonist, and it describes how I felt about the book and the characters. From the bestselling author Marian Keyes, the hilariously heartbreaking Angels follows the tale of the fabulous and uplifting Walsh sister, Maggie . She is brilliant at dialogue, sharply observant of manners, increasingly ambitious about narrative structure, unsentimental about the Darwinian dynamics of the family or the competition and hostility hidden in even the best friendship.