THE HILARIOUS, HEARTWARMING NEW NOVEL FROM INTERNATIONAL NO. 1 BESTSELLER MARIAN KEYES* Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple… Anna has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn’t want all that? Anna – it turns out. Turning a minor mid-life crisis into a major life event she bins the lot, heads back to Ireland, and gets a PR job for a super-high-end coastal retreat. Tougher than it sounds. Newsflash: the locals hate it. So much so, there have been threats – and violence. Anna, however, worked in the beauty industry. There’s no ugliness she hasn’t seen. No wrinkle she can’t smooth over. Anna’s got this. Until she discovers that leaving New York doesn’t mean escaping her mistakes. Once upon a time she'd had a best friend. Once upon a time she'd loved a man. Now she has neither. And now she has to face them. We all make mistakes. But when do we stop making the same one over and over again? Praise for Marian Keyes 'Sensitive, funny, wonderful, immensely touching' Nigella Lawson 'Delightfully funny' Daily Telegraph 'Funny, tender, completely absorbing!' Graham Norton 'An entertaining, growingly poignant contemporary tale' Sunday Times 'Funny, heartbreaking, achingly real' Jane Fallon 'Beautifully written, funny, heartbreaking and always wise - a proper treat' Daily Mail
CONTRIBUTORS: Marian KeyesEAN: 9780241441152COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 700 gHEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books LtdDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / FeministWIDTH: 153 cmSPINE:
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Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Modern and Contemporary romance, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Humour
PRAISE FOR MARIAN KEYES, Delightfully funny, No other author marries heartbreak and hilarity so seamlessly, Funny, heartbreaking and so wise, Her particular gift is the ability to settle the reader into a comfortable seat, then carry them to the darkest places; to make serious things funny - and moving
Marian Keyes is a phenomenon. 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. In addition to her fifteen previous novels, Marian has also written two collection of journalism, upon which the recent hit BBC Radio 4 show Between Ourselves is based. In 2022, she was named the British Book Awards Author of the Year. Marian lives in Don Laoghaire, Dublin. My Favourite Mistake is her sixteenth novel.
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THE HILARIOUS, HEARTWARMING NEW NOVEL FROM INTERNATIONAL NO. 1 BESTSELLER MARIAN KEYES* Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple… Anna has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn’t want all that? Anna – it turns out. Turning a minor mid-life crisis into a major life event she bins the lot, heads back to Ireland, and gets a PR job for a super-high-end coastal retreat. Tougher than it sounds. Newsflash: the locals hate it. So much so, there have been threats – and violence. Anna, however, worked in the beauty industry. There’s no ugliness she hasn’t seen. No wrinkle she can’t smooth over. Anna’s got this. Until she discovers that leaving New York doesn’t mean escaping her mistakes. Once upon a time she'd had a best friend. Once upon a time she'd loved a man. Now she has neither. And now she has to face them. We all make mistakes. But when do we stop making the same one over and over again? Praise for Marian Keyes 'Sensitive, funny, wonderful, immensely touching' Nigella Lawson 'Delightfully funny' Daily Telegraph 'Funny, tender, completely absorbing!' Graham Norton 'An entertaining, growingly poignant contemporary tale' Sunday Times 'Funny, heartbreaking, achingly real' Jane Fallon 'Beautifully written, funny, heartbreaking and always wise - a proper treat' Daily Mail
CONTRIBUTORS: Marian KeyesEAN: 9780241441152COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 700 gHEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books LtdDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / FeministWIDTH: 153 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Modern and Contemporary romance, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Humour
Marian Keyes is a phenomenon. 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. In addition to her fifteen previous novels, Marian has also written two collection of journalism, upon which the recent hit BBC Radio 4 show Between Ourselves is based. In 2022, she was named the British Book Awards Author of the Year. Marian lives in Don Laoghaire, Dublin. My Favourite Mistake is her sixteenth novel.
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