What She Wants: A Novel - Hardcover

Kelly, Cathy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525947396 ISBN 13: 9780525947394

Publisher: E P Dutton, 2003

Synopsis

While Hope struggles to balance her career and family, her sister Sam endeavors to run a record label, their friend Virginia plans to build a retirement dream home, and Nicole loses herself in the party life. By the author of Someone Like You. 15,000 first printing.

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Review:

When Matt decides to uproot his family and move to Ireland in Cathy Kelly's novel, What She Wants, his wife Hope has no choice but to go with him. "Needy and pathetically hungry for love", Hope has such a horror of being abandoned that she'll do anything to keep him by her side. But their move to the rural village of Redlion is a far cry from the rustic romantic life that he promised--with Matt spending every day at the local arts centre, Hope has to look after the children on her own for hours on end in their small run-down cottage, miles away from any friends or family. It's not long before she's desperately lonely, their marriage is on the rocks and she's got nowhere to turn.

Back in London, her sister Sam is completely different. Brittle and sharp, she's a mover and a shaker, with a fantastic job as the managing director of a major record label. Having decided she's never going to be anybody's accessory, she oozes a well-practiced unapproachable air. But just as Hope is having to reassess her life and learn to be stronger and more independent, so Sam is forced to reshuffle the pieces of her world, to stop pushing people away and allow herself to be vulnerable.

If you're strong enough to cart this giant of a book about, What She Wants is a great read. Despite the slightly heavy-handed, laboured style, it's a classic page-turner that focuses on real women facing life-changing challenges. What She Wants is the fifth novel by the bestselling Irish author Cathy Kelly, who won the Parker Romantic Novel of the Year Award for her fourth novel Someone Like You. Kelly, a columnist for the Irish Sunday World, openly admits she writes books that she would want to read herself--a winning formula judging by her sales record. --Jane Honey

Review:

'Kelly dramatises her story with plenty of sparky humour' The Times

'Down-to-earth and insightful, her novels are as compelling as Big Brother' Andrea Henry, The Mirror

About this edition

• Publisher: E P Dutton
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0525947396
• ISBN 13: 9780525947394
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 529