My favourite mistake / Marian Keyes.
By: Keyes, Marian.
Publisher: London : Michael Joseph, 2024Description: 400 pages ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780241441145 (hbk.) :; 0241441145 (hbk.) :.Subject(s): General | General Fiction | Ireland | New York | Modern & contemporary fictionGenre/Form: Humorous stories.Summary: Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple. Anna has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn't want all that? Anna - it turns out. Turning a minor mid-life crisis into a major life event she bins the lot, heads back to Ireland, and gets a PR job for a super-high-end coastal retreat. Tougher than it sounds. Newsflash: the locals hate it. So much so, there have been threats - and violence. Anna, however, worked in the beauty industry. There's no ugliness she hasn't seen. No wrinkle she can't smooth over. Anna's got this. Until she discovers that leaving New York doesn't mean escaping her mistakes. Once upon a time she'd had a best friend. Once upon a time she'd loved a man. Now she has neither. And now she has to face them. We all make mistakes. But when do we stop making the same one over and over again?Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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Adult book | Chester Lane Library Novels | Issued | 24/05/2024 | 38055400027247 | |||
Adult book | Eccleston Library Novels | In transit from Chester Lane Library to Newton-le-Willows Library since 07/05/2024 | 38055400027248 | 1 | |||
Adult book | Haydock Library Novels | Issued | 24/05/2024 | 38055400027249 | |||
Adult book | Newton-le-Willows Library Novels | Issued | 21/05/2024 | 38055400027250 | |||
Adult book | St Helens Library Novels | Issued | 11/05/2024 | 38055400027251 |
Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple. Anna has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn't want all that? Anna - it turns out. Turning a minor mid-life crisis into a major life event she bins the lot, heads back to Ireland, and gets a PR job for a super-high-end coastal retreat. Tougher than it sounds. Newsflash: the locals hate it. So much so, there have been threats - and violence. Anna, however, worked in the beauty industry. There's no ugliness she hasn't seen. No wrinkle she can't smooth over. Anna's got this. Until she discovers that leaving New York doesn't mean escaping her mistakes. Once upon a time she'd had a best friend. Once upon a time she'd loved a man. Now she has neither. And now she has to face them. We all make mistakes. But when do we stop making the same one over and over again?