the other book review

Not as good as Rachel’s hol­i­day, but good enough non the less.

Lisa is send from Lon­don to Dublin to set up a new Women’s mag­a­zine Colleen. Lisa is used to her glam­orous lifestyle, some­thing she has to give up in Ire­land so it seems. Ash­ling is her “sec­ond in com­mand” with her own set of prob­lems. She is very inse­cure about her lack of waist, her lack of bril­liant ideas and her lack of self esteem. Clodagh is Ashling’s best friend, mar­ried, two kids, in a total dip and want­ing some­thing com­pletely dif­fer­ent in her life. Jack is Lisa’s and Ashling’s boss, hav­ing prob­lems in his rela­tion­ship with a fin­ger bit­ing Asian girlfriend.

So, there are a cou­ple of main char­ac­ters in this book, Lisa, Ash­ling, Jack, Clodagh and some other char­ac­ters, which are get­ting some sort, any kind, of rela­tion­ship with each other around page 100. That was when the book started to grab me and didn’t let go any­more. And although the out­come of the book (like all Keyes’ books) was appar­ent after the first few chap­ters, still the book had some sur­pris­ing twists and dis­turb­ing real­ity to it.

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