JUST BETWEEN US - Softcover

Kelly, Cathy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007268645 ISBN 13: 9780007268641

Publisher: HarperFiction, 2012

Synopsis

Another bestseller full of Cathy Kelly’s trademark warmth, romance, optimism and wit.

Friends this good are hard to find...

What’s the secret of the fabulous Miller girls?

Everyone says that they lead charmed lives: successful lawyer and single mother Stella; TV writer Tara, and dreamy, artistic Holly.

Their elegant mother Rose is about to celebrate her fortieth wedding anniversary to husband Hugh, and the Irish town on Kinvarra is looking forward to the celebrations.

But as plans are made for the party, the three sisters and their mother start to reveal each of their secret heartaches to one another. Are they strong enough to deal with the truth about their golden lives?

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Review:

On the surface, Rose Miller, the heroine of Cathy Kelly's Just Between Us, has a golden life: she's just about to celebrate her 40th wedding anniversary with her lovely husband Hugh, her three daughters are all wonderful and her home in the small Irish town of Kinvara is gorgeous. So far it sounds like a feature in a glossy magazine, where everyone is happy and smiling and the only foreseeable problems ahead involve estimating the exact quantity of canapés for the party guests at Rose's ruby wedding bash. But Cathy Kelly doesn't deal in slick clichés. Her characters, despite their glamorous exteriors, face real emotional dilemmas and heartaches. As Rose says: "It was one thing to look as if your life was perfect, it was another thing for it to be so. Looks could be deceptive."

Cathy Kelly, with great warmth and compassion, begins to reveal the not-so-gilded truth about the four Miller women. Rose is questioning her marriage; her youngest daughter Holly is lacking in self-confidence and stuck in a boring job that stifles her creativity; single parent Stella is a brilliant lawyer and mum, but romance seems to be by-passing her; and Tara has a glowing television career, but her home life is turning out to be far from rosy--her husband seems to be drinking to excess. Over the course of some 500 hundred chatty pages Cathy Kelly reveals the women's secret doubts. Their problems are distressing, but the novel still has that feel-good factor; the author mixes humour with realism and the result is this compelling sixth novel from the bestselling Irish author. --Eithne Farry

Review:

'A compulsive read' Woman's Weekly

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

‘Totally believable’ Rosamunde Pilcher

'Compassionate and compelling' Irish Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperFiction
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0007268645
• ISBN 13: 9780007268641
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656