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Fiction. Romance. Humor (Fiction.) HTML: Prada-wearing magazine editor Lisa Edwards thinks her life is over when her 'fabulous' new job turns out to be deportation to Dublin, launching Colleen magazine. No more jet-setting to the Fall Collections? No more fabulous parties and photos in the society pages? The only saving grace is that her friends aren't there to witness her downward spiral. Might her new boss, the disheveled and moody Jack Devine, save her from a fate worse than hell? Ashling Kennedy, Colleen's assistant editor, is an award�winning worrier, increasingly aware that something fundamental is missing from her life � apart from a boyfriend and a waistline. And then there's her closest, oldest friend Clodagh 'Princess' Kelly, who is apparently living the domestic dream in a suburban castle. So why, lately, has Clodagh had a recurring urge to kiss a frog � sleep with a frog, if truth be told?.… (more)
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Lisa's an ambitious editor at
Sushi for Beginners follows each woman as they find their way through daily life, struggling with failed marriages, depression and the ups and downs of relationships. While Keyes has written better books (Rachel's Holiday, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married) this was still fun if you like that kind of thing.
Marian Keyes is one of my favorites from my Chick Lit period, and Sushi for
I know that many a "serious reader" would turn up their nose at the amount of Chick Lit on my shelves but it served its purpose for a particular time in my life. I don't tend to read as many of these types of books these days but I do re-read them from time to time as they are a kind of comfort reading to me.
Marian Keyes is the perfect get away material, she does have some moral messages and often a twist or two in the telling and not all her characters are nice (in fact