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Fed up of being a grown up? Get away from it all with the No. 1 bestseller from Marian Keyes
‘Magnificently messy lives, brilliantly untangled. Funny, tender and completely absorbing!’ GRAHAM NORTON
‘SUCH a treat. Like reading the cleverest cream cake of words’ CAITLIN MORAN
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MEET JESSIE, CARA AND NELL.
Married to brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam Casey.
Three very different women tied to three very different men.
Every family occasion is a party – until the day the secrets spill out.
PLAYTIME IS OVER.
BUT WHERE ARE THE GROWN-UPS?
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‘Comic, convincing and true. Grown Ups has an almost Austenesque insight into character. Keyes knows how to make serious issues relatable – and get a few grownup laughs, too’ GUARDIAN
‘Hilarious, alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking. I loved everything about it’ DAILY MAIL
‘You may have written the best book of your career’ CHRIS EVANS, VIRGIN RADIO
‘Superb. Warm-hearted, wise and highly entertaining’ OBSERVER
‘Keyes at her best: capturing everyday voices with humour and empathy with writing that you’ll devour in a weekend. Just pure and simple joy’ STYLIST
‘I loved every word. I will be missing those gorgeous vibrant characters for many weeks to come’ LIANE MORIARTY, bestselling author of Big Little Lies
‘Messy, tangled complex humans who reminded me that few of us ever really sort our lives out at all’ JOJO MOYES, bestselling author of Me Before You
‘Her best yet. Charming, funny and poignant, but also profound, heartbreaking’ NINA STIBBE, bestselling author of Reasons to be Cheerful
Sunday Times bestseller April 2023
ASIN : B07QCTWJCK
Editore : Penguin (6 febbraio 2020)
Lingua : Inglese
Dimensioni file : 2844 KB
Da testo a voce : Abilitato
Screen Reader : Supportato
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Memo : Su Kindle Scribe
Lunghezza stampa : 615 pagine
Numeri di pagina fonte ISBN : 1405918780
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Funny book
I really like it
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Ho letto tanti libri di Marian Keyes, e questo libro sembra di essere scritto da qualcun altro. à talmente noioso che, dopo che ho letto 130 pagine quasi contro la mia volontà , ho deciso di smettere. 500 più pagine così – non ce la faccio sicuramente!à molto lento il libro, non c’è una storia, un suo perchè. Conversazioni che non hanno alcun senso e non contribuiscono alla storia.
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Minha autora preferida sem nenhuma dúvida! Livro intrigante e maravilhoso⦠e ainda tem final feliz, tudo que precisamos nessa pandemia
The novel begins with a prologue set in a time during the passage of the novel which is not clear. It appears to be a beginning but as soon as you get beyond that prologue, it’s clear that it’s been drawn from another point in the story. It’s a point to which we will return with devastating effect The prologue introduces the characters and the complex relationships between two families, the Kinsellas and the Caseys. Both are distinct with their own problem, idiosyncracies and problems. The families are connected by marriage. Jessie Parnell, an ambitious, impulsive entrepreneur and owner of a fine foods business marries Rory Kinsella and then after his untimely death, his best friend Johnny Casey which the Kinsellas have more than a little trouble accepting. It’s those relationships and the relationships across the two families that is the driving force of an intricate, funny and occasionally heart-rending novel that deals with bulimia, immigration and intense, passionate, physical love. That cocktail is superbly mixed in a glass reflected in the ironic title. ‘Grown Ups”: a child’s name for adults is about how adults can behave with all the fear and insecurities of children. But the title also refers to the children coming of age in the novel with their grown up desires and inability to handle the adulthood that is thrust upon them. The novel takes us through the impending crisis in Jessie’s business that she shares with a husband she is losing, through the shallow perfidy of her husband’s brother Liam and the artistic free spirit Nell who he marries and if fooled by his apparent cool quotient. It’s a broad sweep of a novel where each character is both finally drawn and believable. The story sweeps through will-they-won’t-they sexual escapades to searing mental health problems and the wrong-headedness of Irish refugee policy and yet never loses its comic take on how we wrestle with who we’ve become. This is the first Marian Keyes novel I have read since ‘Sushi for Beginners’. I highly recommend for an intricate story well told, great characters and a satisfying ending.
Very interesting and fascinating book but there was no mistery or secret, and the end (8 years later) only describes one of the character.
All the ups & downs relationships go through, the variety of individuals & couples out there…each one with their own unique story…each of us, Iâm sure, can relate to a lot of characters, their traits, the situations in this novel. Will relationships stand the test of time?…..is something thatâs beautifully presented…some do, while some donât