One For The Girls (Lucy Sullivan is getting married - Marian Keyes)

Member Name: barbara107

Product:	Lucy Sullivan is getting married - Marian Keyes
Date:	27/10/01 (46 review reads)
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Advantages: A very funny read

Disadvantages: Men just wouldnt understand

I bought this book as a gift for a friend of mine to cheer her up as she had been having an all round bad time with one thing or another(Men mostly!!)

I hoped that she would read it quickly and then let me borrow it back, but it didn’t quite work out that way, infact I don’t know if she has finished reading it yet!!

I couldn’t wait so I bought myself another copy, and am I glad I did.

My first encounter with Marian Keyes was with The Last Chance Saloon, and I fell in love with her style of writing and the characters that she created.

Right from the start of this book she had me hooked.. She has a wonderful witty style that comes across in abundance yet she can also write about the hard times in life that we must all go through with a sense of dolefullness and a softness that keeps you involved.

Lucy Sullivan is single, desperately so, works at a dull, dead end job and lives with two flatmates - Karen, the egotistical and ruthless one and Charlotte, the sweet and somewhat dizzy other one. How many of us do just those couple of lines apply to!!

Her friends convince her to go to a fortune teller who announces, among other things, that Lucy will be married within the year. Lucy, laughs this prediction off but as other things predicted begin to come true one can't help but think that Lucy has a chance.

Through the book we meet her best friend Daniel, who Karen has the hots for, Meridia, her over weight and fabulous co-worker, Gus, the man of Lucy's dreams as well as her parents. Lucy tries to keep her head about her while her flighty boyfriend comes and goes, her job becomes duller and her family begins to fall apart.

But will Lucy find the man of her dreams? Will she be able to hold it all together? Only time will tell (as will readers of this book).

While Marian Keyes seems to follow a bit of a pattern in the book, it doesn't seem to hold her back one b
it.

I laughed along with Lucy and felt sorrow along with her. With lines like, 'If I had left then, that second, I would have missed the arrival of my anger. But no, it met me at the door as it staggered in, gasping and panting, worn out from the crosstown journey. "Sorry I am late," it wheezed, clutching it's chest. "Awful traffic..."' one can't help but totally know what Lucy feels like. Her struggles are very true to life as are the situations she finds herself in. If all you ladies out there don’t see at least a bit of themselves in her I'd be surprised.

Anyone that enjoys watch 'Sex in the City' or has read and enjoyed Bridget Jones or Girls Guide to Hunting and fishing will certainly enjoy this book.

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