Angels

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I could see straight through the padding of the daily routine, the private language and the shared past, right into the heart of me and Garv, into all that had happened over the last while. He has a penchant for fancy trainers, ADORES a bargain (from Zegna jackets reduced by 70% to a punnet of cherries at 1/3 of their original cost which need to be eaten immediately) and his favourite meal is a pie. She cannot pay her mortgage and she does not want her lover of six months to find out, she experiences anxiety while trying to struggle with herself. In Angels, Keyes moves from her usual venues - suburban and boomtown Dublin - to Los Angeles and the film industry.

Currently the 67th richest woman in the UK, with sales of her books topping 5m copies, Keyes is now in the Very Good Place. But everything caved in without a single cross word being exchanged, and I simply wasn’t prepared for it.But what she conveniently omits to mention when she’s making her proud boast is that Garv might have been my first boyfriend, but he wasn’t my only one. Her family is characterized by crazy sisters who quarrel over men and clothes, a mother addicted to soap operas and a father bewildered as a result of the women surrounding him. Then he began questioning me about how I’d felt about something or other; probing and delving with the intimacy of a gynaecologist. And no matter what they confess or what they do - addiction, abortion, infidelity - her women are survivors. Faced with evidence of her husband's infidelity, Maggie decides to draw a line under her respectable past and spend time with her best friend, Emily, in sunny California.

But because I thought that if I imagined the worst possible scenario, it would somehow be insurance against it actually happening. The point of view used in the series is first person; you get to see what is happening through the eyes of the protagonist. Aside from the Walsh Sister series other novels written by Keyes include; Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, The Charming man, The brightest star in the sky and The Woman Who Stole My Life.His new flatscreen telly fell on it: (Liam and Elaine had every consumer durable known to man -and I stress man, not woman.

The kicker was that even though I’d done night classes and got some qualifications in Chicago, I wasn’t a proper lawyer. Underneath the perfect eyebrows, Maggie stays the same wholesome, romantic Irish girl, and we know that her prince (not to mention the entire Walsh family with tickets to Disneyland) will come to rescue her in the end. Marian’s books are global bestsellers, consistently charting in the top ten in Brazil, Spain, Sweden, Finland and Norway. In addition to their formidable capacity for drink and their stoic endurance of hangovers, her heroines all suffer from "mourning sickness". She discovers her husband is having an affair and her boss wants to fire her, she therefore flees to Hollywood to stay with her best friend.

In LA she hangs out with superstars and directors for once in her life she decides to have a carefree attitude. Marian has written five novels about the Walsh family – Watermelon, Rachel’s Holiday, Angels, Anybody Out There and The Mystery of Mercy Close – which follow sisters Claire, Rachel, Margaret, Anna and Helen. Regarding her decision to use an optimistic tone and hopeful ending, Keyes has said: "I'm very bleak, really melancholic. That credo is what makes Keyes's novels so interesting and so frustrating, and what makes her an artist manqué as well as a marketing phenomenon. I’d recently realized that biting my nails was the only exercise was getting so I’d hatched a cunning plan -rather than ring Sandra, my assistant, to come and collect my dictaphone tapes, I’d walk the twenty yards to her office and hand-deliver them instead.