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Loading... This Charming Man: A Novel (original 2008; edition 2008)by Marian Keyes
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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. 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. no reviews | add a review
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The story of four very different women, one awfully charming man, and the dark secret that binds them all. No library descriptions found.
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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Fab book, highly recommend it, but, not for the faint hearted! ( )