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Marian Keyes' sixth novel is a truly captivating story about a marriage that's gone wrong and a sensible girl who suddenly just wants to let her hair down.

Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done everything right. Sensibly. By the book. Until the day she leaves her husband and runs away to Hollywood, that is.

In LA the primping, preening and partying are non-stop and even the palm...

'I had to go back to New York and try to find him. There was a chance he mightn't be there but I had to give it a go because there was one thing I was certain of: he wasn't here.'

Anna Walsh is officially a wreck. She's lying in her parents' Good Front Room dreaming of leaving Dublin and getting back to New York.
To her Friends.
To The Most Fabulous Job in the World.

Places such as the Irish air-guitar championships, a shopping trip with a difference to Bloomingdales and Cannes with a chronic case of Villa-itis. Along the way you'll encounter knicker-politics, fake tans, sticky-out ears and passionate love affairs with both make-up and Toblerone. And of course, agony aunt Mammy Walsh is on hand to solve all your problems.

Hilarious and poignant, down-to-earth and...

Bestselling Irish author Marian Keyes has created yet another group of unforgettable characters in this irresistibly funny and uplifting tale of the search for happiness and the unpredictability of fate.

Tara, Katherine and Fintan, best friends since their Duran Duran-dominated teenage years in County Clare, are now in their thirties and living in London.

Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books.

Marian Keyes spearheaded a new wave of contemporary women's fiction, providing wickedly funny tales...