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This Charming Man: A Novel by Marian Keyes
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This Charming Man: A Novel (original 2008; edition 2008)

by Marian Keyes

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The story of four very different women, one awfully charming man, and the dark secret that binds them all.
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Title:This Charming Man: A Novel
Authors:Marian Keyes
Info:William Morrow (2008), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 576 pages
Collections:Your library
Rating:****1/2
Tags:Ireland Relationships Humor Domestic Abuse Alcoholism Friendship Politicians

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This Charming Man by Marian Keyes (2008)

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Sometimes we are so blinded in our quest for love that we substitute it with emotional and physical abuse and we don't even realize it. At some point in our lives we have probably been one of these female characters...

Fab book, highly recommend it, but, not for the faint hearted! ( )
  Breatheasy | Feb 24, 2023 |
Not crazy about the style of character presentation, particularly Lola. Took a while to get the thread of the domestic violence theme but once into it was keen to see how she resolved it. Pity there wasn't a "just desserts' for Paddy and felt sorry for Alicia but in all an interesting presentation of the issues and reasons why women suffer it for so long. ( )
  ElizabethCromb | Sep 22, 2022 |
I read this for the "a book recommended by a friend" part of my 2018 reading challenge. I'm not a huge fan of chick-lit, so I found the first half kind of lackluster, then the characters really started getting depth and it got much more intriguing. ( )
  Linyarai | Feb 16, 2020 |
DNF and hated what I did read

Years ago I read my first book by Marian Keyes called "Is Anybody Out There." I adored it and thought it was really exceptional. So I sought out and read everything else I could find by this author, hoping to recapture that feeling, but was disappointed every time. Somehow I forgot that, and bought this one at a used book store because the plot sounded good.

The first chapter focused on an unlikeable, unsympathetic nitwit of a female character and it was written in a choppy, abbreviated style that was obviously meant to be along the lines of Bridget Jones' Diary. But it was not stated that it was a diary. This was just so inexplicable and annoying and idiotic that I wanted to hurl the book against a wall. Needless to say, I couldn't make it past the first chapter.
  AngeH | Jan 2, 2020 |
This is one of the best, yet one of the hardest Keyes' books I've ever read. ( )
  tntbeckyford | Feb 16, 2019 |
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What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
- C.S. Lewis
What! You too? I thought I was the only one. C. S. Lewis
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For CaitrĂ­ona Keyes, the funniest person I've ever met
For Caitriona Keyes, the funniest person I've ever met.
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Everyone remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married.
'Everyone remembers where they were the day they herd that Paddy de Courcy was getting married.
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The story of four very different women, one awfully charming man, and the dark secret that binds them all.

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Four very different woman are startled to hear the news that politician Paddy de Courcy is getting married, not least his girlfriend Lola, who is not the woman he has announced he is marrying. That woman is Alicia, also startled by the announcement as Paddy hasn't actually asked her to marry him yet. Journalist Grace wants the inside story on the really Paddy and her twin sister Marnie is shocked to find that fifteen years after she dated Paddy it still hurts her to see him happy with another woman. This book tells the story of how they cope with the fallout from Paddy's wedding annoucement and reevaluate thier lives in the aftermath.
'Everybody remembers where they were the day they herd that Paddy de Courey was getting married.'

But for four women in particular, the big news about the charismatic politician is momentous...

Stylist Lola has every reason to be interested in who Paddy's marrying because she's his girlfriend, Yet she definitely isn't the bride-to-be... Journalist Grace wants the inside story in the de Courey engagement and thinks Lola holds the key... While Grace's sister Marnie still can't forget her first love: a certain Paddy de Courey. And what of the soon-to-be Mrs de Courey? Alicia will do anything for her fiance and is determined to be the perfect wife. But does she know the real Paddy?

Four very different women. One awfully charming man. And the dark secret that binds them all.......


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