The Other Side Of The Story - Marian Keyes

So winter is fast approaching, the nights are drawing in and lets face it a bit of chick lit wouldn't go amiss. If you have read Marian Keyes fiction before, then the other side of the story will not let you down. It is typically light hearted, fun and perfect for the cold winter months. Based around three main characters JoJo, Gemma and Lily, with each having their own first hand narrative (although this can make the book seem somewhat disjointed at times). So here's a bit about the 3 main girls. Gemma - Is a party planner in Ireland and she has a nice flat, job , car etc. etc. but all goes wrong when her Father leaves her Mother for a ...

Chick Lit is not everyone's cup of tea and within the genre itself there are some good and bad books. Marian Keyes, in my opinion, is one of the better writers in this genre - her characters are realistic, flawed, but not unlikeable. They are never the glossy haired, beautiful, intelligent, perfect specimens you might find in some more formulaic novels. They are regular women (yes, her lead characters are always female) who are not perfect looking, or amazingly intelligent, they are like real girls and almost like someone you would know. Her books are always wittily written and cover a broad spectrum of events in people's lives such as drug addiction, marriage break ups, ...

With eight other bestsellers under her belt, Marian Keyes has unsurprisingly done it again with her newest novel 'The Other Side Of The Story'. Having read only 'Angels' by Marian, I was unsure of what to expect as, although Angels was good, it wasn't outstanding and when I bought this I was looking forward to seeing if there was more to Marian than what I'd seen so far. *** Plot *** Gemma, JoJo and Lily are all successful women who are linked to each other in different ways. Jojo the high flying literary agent is constantly watching out for promotion and trying to keep her complicated love life with her married boss a ...