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The Woman Who Stole My Life: British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022

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Then she is paralysed by a rare neurological condition and can only 'speak' by blinking. Her neurologist takes an interest in her, jotting down her pieces of wisdom. I really did want Stella to get that second book published but I guess all our fairy tales can't tales can't come true. Ha!! The characters are so vivid and there's great dialogue and description throughout. Marian adds a dash of humor and a bit of snark to both Stella's thoughts and words. There are so many twists and turns, so I was constantly surprised. All I know is that I smiled and laughed. A LOT!

A small smile plays about my lips, though. Just in case you’re looking in. Being in the public eye does that to a person. You have to look smiley and act nice all the time, or else people will say, ‘The fame went to her head. And it’s not like she was any good in the first place.’ No really, it's fantastic. I'm not even lying. The plot is riveting, and so thorough in detail and knowledge that you respect author Marian Keyes just that bit more for giving you something to really think about. The fact that I felt I was getting not one, not two, but three books in one should show you how many little things done by her writing skills, and mindset had me utterly engrossed, fascinated and in awe. The Woman Who Stole My Life has you hanging on every word. It has you holding your breath in anxiety. It has you making up your own little scenarios and fixating on little clues about what has happened to Stella that is so bad that she's had to leave a glamorous and fantastic life as an author in New York. The first time I’d met her she’d waved my book in the air and said, ‘We could go a long ways with this. Drop ten pounds and you’ve got yourself an agent.’MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window)

Begin at the beginning,’ Phyllis had told me, that terrible day in her office in New York, a few months ago. ‘Do an introduction. Remind people of who you are.’ BBC One - imagine..., 2022, Marian Keyes: My (not so) Perfect Life, Meeting 'Mr Right' ". BBC . Retrieved 8 February 2022.One day, sitting in traffic, Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life.

I don't think I have, but I've bought another Marian Keyes title from Audible which may or may not feature Aoife McMahon. She has an excellent way of bringing all of the different characters to life. My passenger door was wrenched open and the spell was broken. ‘Are you okay?’ someone asked. ‘Can you get out?’

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For she meets a man who wants her telephone number (for the insurance, it turns out). That's okay. She doesn't really like him much anyway (his Range Rover totally banjaxed her car). Flood, Alison (14 December 2012). "Marian Keyes: a life in books". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 15 December 2012. Somehow I had gotten it into my head that Keyes’ books were the light and fluffy, clichéd sort – rather than the complex, interesting, fun sort that I found in The Woman Who Stole My Life. Keyes' depressive period lasted about four years. During this time she also wrote The Mystery of Mercy Close, a novel in which the heroine experiences similar battles with depression and suicide attempts as those Keyes herself experienced. [9] As Keyes further describes this period of her life: "It was like being in an altered reality . . . I was always melancholic and prone to sadness and hopelessness but this was catastrophic and unimaginable." No, bad idea to mention the skintness, I’d better take that out . . . I hit the delete key until all mention of money has disappeared, then start typing again.

Every device we sell or rent on the musicMagpie Store goes through an extensive in-house refurbishment process to ensure you're getting a great quality device for a great price. Here's everything you need to know! Without giving too much away the middle section of the book was the most enjoyable, The ending was full of Stella jumping to conclusions and making rash decisions. I might be naive thinking that people don't behave like that but it certainly didn't seem realistic. By the time I emerged from this phase and started reading more widely, Marian Keyes was well established, and when I started working in bookshops she had her own section on the shelf. But somehow, though people kept telling me I should give her a try, I never got around to it until now. I don’t like chic-lit where everything is happy, and the conflict is the same from book to book. I want a read to keep me guessing, to keep me interested, to surprise me. During her appearance on Desert Island Discs in March 2017, Keyes told the host that "[by] conditioning women to think that what they find empowering or valuable is worth less than what men consider to be worthwhile, women are prevented from reaching for parity and the gender gap in power and money between men and women is kept in the favour of men". [11] Abruptly my bubble pops and I’m faced with the fairy-dust- free facts: I wrote ten sentences today. That’s not enough.You can’t call something love until everything goes wrong and you manage to survive it,” she says. “Love isn’t hearts and flowers. And it’s not good sex. Love is about loyalty. Endurance. Soldiering on, shoulder to shoulder.” If that makes the novel sound somewhat worthy, it’s anything but.

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