Last Chance Saloon - Marian Keyes

***The plot*** Katherine, Tara and Fintan have known each other from an early age onward. Having grown up in the same small village in rural Ireland, they one day decided to pack their bags and move to London to start a different kind of life. Now in their thirties, each of the characters faces a different kind of struggle with life's smaller and bigger challenges. This throws up one important question: Is it too late to change their set ways? When tragedy strikes at the heart of the circle of friends, it makes Katherine, Tara and even Fintan re-evaluate their lives. This is one of those stories that follows a group of friends through a stage of ...  Read the complete review

This book took my fancy straight away and i can honestly say i wasn't disappointed! ~~The Plot~~ Tara, Finton and Katharine have been best friends for as long as they can remember. They've done everything together, laughed, cried, drunken hilarities and have always been there when needed. They're hitting their thirties and suddenly life has become more realistic as fate deals them a rotton blow. Tara is still looking for that perfect diet whilst looking for that ever lasting lipstick; Katharine is a no man area and has been for as long as the friends remember. Fintan, however, is the one with the love life but what has fate in ...  Read the complete review

Having read 'Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married', and 'Sushi For Beginners', I was beginning to wonder just what the fuss about Marian Keyes was. I kept plodding through though as my mother keeps buying them for me because she heard that a second cousin of a friend of a friend liked them or something, and so she bought four of them. I actually finished this novel about a week ago, it took me about three days to read and that's only because I was so busy! I assure you that I would have read it cover to cover without stopping (well, maybe), and thus you have my first pro-point of this novel - you can't put it down, it would be a sin to. I ...  Read the complete review

Yes, it is a more serious read - but the familar Keyes humour is still there! If you are expecting something very similar to Watermelon and Lucy Sullivan..., you may be disappointed - but I felt that this was a wonderful book - so much so that I read it again as soon as I had finished it for the first time. Don't get me wrong - I loved her first three books - Lucy Sullivan is probably the book I have read the most times, but this has something more -it deals with a subject that still seems taboo, that of cancer in young men, but in a sympathetically humourous way - life is not all about young single women and boyfriend trouble and this book illustrates this perfectly ...  Read the complete review

To me, Marian Keyes is ‘the’ stalwart lassie of British/Irish female fiction. She is no Victor Hugo (but who is?), but she has churned out some classics of her own genre. In terms of Last Chance Saloon, I'd like to say some very nice things about this book. I mean, I like Marian Keyes immensely. She is a warm, funny and knowledgeable writer – but my personal opinion is that this book has let her and the reader down somewhat - especially when one compares it to her previous more serious/much wittier (and believe me the two can be combined) 'light' fiction. The book deals primarily with three friends who have left their ...  Read the complete review