Watermelon

An hilarious and bitter-sweet tale of baby-blues and fruitless men. The original Marian Keyes novel is back!

At twenty-nine, fun-loving, good-natured Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to her first baby, James visits her in the recovery room to inform her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a beautiful newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a body that she can hardly bear to look at in the mirror. So, in the absence of any better offers, Claire decides to go home to her family in Dublin. To her gorgeous man-eating sister Helen, her soap-watching mother, her bewildered father. And there, sheltered by the love of an (albeit quirky) family, she gets better. A lot better. In fact, so much better that when James slithers back into her life, he's in for a bit of a surprise.

Author Profile

Marian Keyes has had two number 1 Sunday Times bestsellers - Sushi for Beginners and Angels. She is the celebrated author of Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, and The Other Side of the Story. She also writes short stories, monthly columns and one-offs for various magazines. She is involved with various charities - she contributed to a multi-authored book, Yeats is Dead! where all the royalties were donated to Amnesty International. She recently published a collection of her journalism, titled Under the Duvet , and donated all royalties from Irish sales to the Simon Community, a charity which works with the homeless.

Reviews

Reading a new novel by Marian Keyes is like sitting at the kitchen table with your nicest, most confiding friend',‘To call Marian Keyes the queen of chick-lit is an understatement.’,‘Keyes gives popular fiction a good name’,'Marian Keyes has a talent for writing about ordinary things happening to ordinary people. But in Watermelon, the skill with which she weaves this tangled web is extraordinary.','A grand first novel by Irish writer Keyes is a hilarious treatise on love's roller coaster... A candid, irresistibly funny debut and perfect summertime read.','Bitter-sweet comedy.',‘Keyes' charm lies in the fact that she writes about people like us’