![]() Ed has never had that feeling of being grounded, of belonging somewhere, until he met his wife Cara. Their background isn’t great, in fact their parents are awful people – demonstrated at their golden wedding anniversary when their father’s speech manipulated and put down each of his sons in turn. ![]() Each and every character was so real and so distinct that I felt I knew them all personally.Įd, Johnny and Liam are brothers and enjoy a large extended family. If I had to pick one thing about her writing that makes it so good, amply demonstrated in this novel, it’s that she provided a family tree to keep track of the characters and how they were related to each other, but I didn’t need it once. She’d fit right in with my family and is one of the first people I’d invite to a fantasy dinner party. ![]() It helps that she’s also an incredible woman, mad as a box of frogs and funny, enthusiastic about what she loves and chatters on ten to the dozen. Before I knew it I was racing through her back catalogue and loving every minute of it. ![]() It was reading Jojo Moyes ‘Me Before You’ that put me onto Rachel’s Holiday and the Walsh family. The literary equivalent of easy listening music, pleasant but no depth, just tinkling on in the background when I wanted my reads to grab me, make me think and blow me away. It was firmly in the category of chick-lit and that meant it would be ‘easy-reading’. Years ago, when I was a book snob after my English lit degree, I wouldn’t have read Marian Keyes. ![]()
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