Last Chance Saloon - Marian Keyes

Last Chance Saloon - Marian Keyes: Life's too short to let it pass by (1008 words)
by Delicate_Orchid1 - written on 10.09.05 (Very useful, 120 readings)
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***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 ...

This is YOUR last chance Ms Keyes! (830 words)
by kathem - written on 30.09.02 (Very useful, 187 readings)
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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 ...

Last Chance Saloon - Marian Keyes: Keyes shows there's more to her repertoire (261 words)
by speker's_corner - written on 04.09.00 (Very useful, 31 readings)
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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 ...