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Maggie has been married for many years and learns through chocolates that her husband is cheating on her. There, with the help of sunshine and long days at the beach, she will lick her wounds and decide where life will take her next. In the cut-throat Hollywood setting, such women are one-dimensional; when Maggie tells men at parties that she is in town for some "down time", they quickly walk away. The earlier two Walsh sister novels didn't really have stand-out plots, but to be fair, they didn't need stand-out plots. I consider Angels the best book Marian Keyes has ever written (although I havent yet read all her books).

I'm making it sound much more dramatic than it actually was, which is strange because I never used to have a penchant for dramatics. Angels is written with sensitivity and spunk, a combination that has really seemed to work for Keyes’ books in which the Walsh sisters appear. Cuando hoy te vi, me di cuenta de que mis sentimientos seguían vivos y supe que siempre te quitaría el caracol del parabrisas.

Of course, I didn't just wake up one morning and skip the country, leaving my poor, sleepy, fool of a husband wondering what that envelope on his pillow was. But despite Keyes's talent, the romance structure, with its obligatory happy ending, always triumphs like an addiction, pulling her back into the realm of airport fiction and the mass market. Maggie had a crisis of confidence, she ran around trying to fix her bad nails, her bad hair, she felt she wasn't good enough. Another thing is the way it referred to mental health (like depression for example) was very insensitive and was romantizing it.

Her writing bored be so much I couldn't even get through the whole book and ended up reading the epilogue. I listened to this on audio CD, via my public library, therefore my speed process was not able to be manipulated! Marian Keyes seems to succeed the most with her novels when she focuses on one of the Walsh sisters from Ireland. She is brilliant at dialogue, sharply observant of manners, increasingly ambitious about narrative structure, unsentimental about the Darwinian dynamics of the family or the competition and hostility hidden in even the best friendship.

Now, in the present, she has angst because she thinks this has made her unable to have a baby now that she wants one. This subplot does contribute something to Emily's characterization, but gets resolved in the "where-are-they-now" epilogue, where we get a brief recap of the resolution. We get to hear Margaret's side of the story, which is great after seeing her sidelined as the 'boring' one in all the other books.

She is such a wonderful author and can minutely detail the fine points in interpersonal relationships that I find myself almost gasping and thinking, I've thought/felt/said that before! 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. Around the fringes of her heroines' wrecked relationships circle the "coffin chasers", even more desperate female predators who pick the bones of dead marriages and make off with the spare men. She became known worldwide for Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, and This Charming Man, with themes including domestic violence and alcoholism.Découvrez la suite de la saga des soeurs Walsch en suivant les aventures de Maggie, pour qui la vie bien rangée de femme mariée va basculer. También se agradece la presencia de secundarios como Emily, Troy (me habría gustado ver alguna escena de los dos juntos al final, eso sí) y Lara. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Maggie has been happily married to her high school boyfriend, Garv, for years, but their marriage has been on a downward slide.

These themes are especially prominent in the novels she has written about the Walsh sisters from Dublin: Watermelon, about Claire Walsh's desertion by her husband on the day she gives birth to their daughter; and her best book, the powerful, painful Rachel's Holiday, about Rachel Walsh's drug overdose and stint at the Cloisters, an Irish rehab centre. Main character (whose name, in case you can't tell, I've totally forgotten) goes to England to get an abortion. Las cuatro de la madrugada es el momento más desapacible del ser humano, cuando tenemos más bajo el ánimo. The third in the Walsh series follows Margaret (Maggie) as she leaves her husband and flies to LA to try and find peace after the end of her marriage.From the bestselling author Marian Keyes, the hilariously heartbreaking Angels follows the tale of the fabulous and uplifting Walsh sister, Maggie . She could have been the Ahab to Maggie's Ishmael (that is to say, the character the book is actually about), but instead she's just a side character. Devastated, she decides the only thing to do is to run for the shelter of her best friend, Emily, who lives in Los Angeles. Nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens for FAR too long, mostly because the main character doesn't want anything, so she's not trying to do anything, so you get endless descriptions of her pointless days of hanging out.

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