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Lucy Sullivan, the eponymous heroine of Irish writer Keyes's second offbeat romantic comedy to be published in the U.S. (after Watermelon), fancies herself simultaneously miserable and happy. A 26-year-old Londoner, Lucy is the kind of woman who thinks that any man who's decent to her must be Mr. Wrong. But when she visits a fortune-teller with a trio of mismatched friends, a marriage is predicted for the near future. When the fortune-teller's prophecies for the other three come true in peculiar ways, even disbelieving, boyfriendless Lucy begins to suspect that, somehow, wedding bells will ring for her. The identity of the lucky man will come as no surprise, though Lucy remains oblivious until the very end, but there are many eligible bachelors on the scene, among them Gus, Lucy's sexy but unreliable new lover; Daniel, her oldest friend; Chuck, a handsome American; and Adrian, the video shop man. The attendant mayhem includes drunken meals at ethnic restaurants, flamenco dancing accidents, blind dates gone wrong and many delicious confessions and revelations. As Lucy says, "I was still at that stage in my life when I thought that weekdays were for recovering from the weekend," but more often than not, her weekdays are as full of exhausting fun as her weekends. Surprisingly for a comic novel, the book also takes on the serious themes of clinical depression and alcoholism, handling both with sensitivity and humor. Throughout, the effervescent narrative is fueled by witty repartee; though its outcome may be predictable, its sentiments are heartfelt, and its progress is sprightly. Fans of Bridget Jones will be delighted. Agent, Russell Galen of Scovil Chichak Galen. (Aug.) Holiday.
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Following the successful Watermelon, the Irish-born, London-based Keyes introduces us to Lucy, luckless in love but destined (according to a tarot card reading) to be married within the year.
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 640 pages
  • Publisher: Avon A (April 30, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060090375
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060090371
  • Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (233 customer reviews)
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36 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Bridget Jones meets Sex in the City, July 7, 2000
By Karen Bierman Hirsh (Greenwich, CT) - See all my reviews
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I had such fun reading this book. The title alone made me laugh and once I opened the book I was not disappointed one bit. This is the first of Marian Keyes books that I have read and I will certainly pick up the rest. She has a wonderful witty style that comes across to the reader in abundance yet she can also write about the hard times in life that we must all go through with a sense of dolefullness and a softness that keeps the reader involved.

Lucy Sullivan is single, desperately so, works at a dull, dead end job and lives with two flatmates - Karen, the egotistical and ruthless one and Charlotte, the sweet and somewhat ditzy other one. The reader can't help but take Lucy's view of these characters.

Her office workers convince her to go to a fortune teller who announces, among other things, that Lucy will be married within the year. Lucy, like the reader, laughs this prediction off but as her officemates' predictions begin to come true one can't help but think that Lucy has a chance.

Through the book we meet her best friend Daniel, who Karen has the hots for, Meridia, her over weight and fabulous co-worker, Gus, the man of Lucy's dreams as well as her parents. Lucy tries to keep her head about her while her flighty boyfriend comes and goes, her job becomes duller and her family begins to fall apart.

But will Lucy find the man of her dreams? Will she be able to hold it all together? Only time will tell (as will readers of this book). While Marian Keyes seems to follow a bit of a pattern in the book, it doesn't seem to hold her back one bit.

I laughed along with Lucy and felt sorrow along with her. With lines like, 'If I had left then, that second, I would have missed the arrival of my anger. But no, I met it me at the door as it staggered in, gasping and panting, worn out from the crosstown journey. "Sorry I am late," it wheezed, cluthing it's chest. "Awful traffic..."' one can't help but totally know what Lucy feels like. Her struggles are very true to life as are the situations she finds herself in. If female readers don't see a bit of themselves in her I'd be surprised.

Anyone that enjoys watch 'Sex in the City' or has read and enjoyed Bridget Jones or Girls Guide to Hunting and fishing will certainly enjoy this book.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Laugh out loud funny and touching at the same time, June 11, 2002
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I absolutely loved this book. So many great lines had me laughing out loud - such as when Lucy avoids asking her roommates to keep it down late one night, lest she be drawn into drinking a half a bottle of vodka in a "If you can't beat them, join them" exercise, her descriptions of Tom, and the details of why she is reluctant when a man takes her hand and tells her to feel his heartbeat, just to name a few. Yet buried in this breezy prose are some hard realizations for the character of Lucy, such as those epiphanies she has while trying to hold her family together, or when she realizes the repeating pattern in all her relationships.
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I have gotten so tired of "women's literature" that reads like the manuscript for a Lifetime TV movie: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (must we keep being tortured with books about unfit lunatic mothers and why it's OK that they have irreparably damaged their children?), The Girls Guide To Hunting and Fishing (this book was terrible and I'm not sure it even had a point), and We Were The Mulvaneys (don't even get me started on what kind of a twisted, repressed, wretched excuse for a mother would think sending her daughter away into exile after she got RAPED was a good solution), and on and on and on.
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This book, as well as the other Marian Keyes books I've read, delievers a valid message without making you feel like you want to kill yourself after finishing the last page. Her dry and acerbic sense of humor keep the reader entertained from start to finish, and she always manages to endear the characters to the reader's heart.
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I've seen this book advertised as a "beach read", and it is in many ways a light and easy read, but there is plenty of substance and insight to be found, so don't let the categorization fool you.
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3.0 out of 5 stars I want to STRANGLE Lucy Sullivan!!, January 28, 2002
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I love a good, predictable single Brit gal book. As a matter of fact I live for them! But this one left something to be desired. Lucy Sullivan is miserable and annoying. Nobody could possibly be as stupid as she is - from letting her friends control her to not realizing her father is an alcoholic and dating a lunatic drunk. Gus, who she winds up dating throughout the book, is completely over the top. Lots of us have gotten ourselves into relationships with men who don't treat us well, but nobody would put up with that. And there is no way a nice, responsible, handsome man like Daniel would ever see anything in someone like Lucy, who treats him horribly and is happy being miserable. Unless there's something wrong with him underneath it all too.

This book was also way too long and redundant. I felt like the conversations with crazy Gus went on for HOURS. And I felt like I'd scream if Lucy mentioned one more time how NOT attracted to Daniel she was.

I've read worse, and like I said, I love a Brit chick book, so I'll give it 3 stars. But Marian Keyes can do much better. Skip this one and pick up Last Chance Saloon!!

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