This Charming Man: British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022 - Softcover

Keyes, Marian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241958482 ISBN 13: 9780241958483

Publisher: Penguin, 2012

Synopsis

Four very different women, one awfully charming man and a dark secret that binds them all . . ., Marian Keyes' This Charming Man follows women who have been caught in a web of modern love. 'Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married' Slick, handsome politician Paddy de Courcy is on the up. His party is set to do well in the elections and he's just announced his engagement to the beautiful Alicia., Which is news to his girlfriend, Lola, who, within hours, finds herself dumped and warned not to talk to the press. Yet journalist Grace is on the prowl. She has been after Paddy ever since he ruined her sister Marnie's life way back in college., Grace is looking for the inside story and thinks Lola holds the key.But do any of them know the real Paddy? 'So funny, so perceptive, so real. I changed my life for this book'Mail on Sunday'The laughs come fast and furious . ., . a gripping, compelling tale' Sunday Independent'The queen of page-turners . ., . brimming with her trademark down-to-earth wit' Cosmopolitan'Gripping from the start . ., . the master at her best' Daily Telegraph

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Review:

Four very different women, one awfully charming man and a dark secret that binds them all . . .

Marian Keyes' This Charming Man follows women who have been caught in a web of modern love.

'Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married'

(from the publishers' description)

The laughs come fast and furious . . . a gripping, compelling tale (Sunday Independent)

The queen of page-turners . . . brimming with her trademark down-to-earth wit (Cosmopolitan)

Gripping from the start . . . the master at her best (Daily Telegraph)

Keyes' multi-layered plotting has never been as ingenious as in this . . . It's her best book yet (Irish Times)

From the Back Cover:

'Don't you dare be happy, you bastard.
That's what I thought when I heard. Don't you dare be happy'

Slick, handsome politician Paddy de Courcy is on the up. His party is set do well in the elections and he's just announced his engagement to the beautiful Alicia. Which is news to his girlfriend, Lola, who, within hours, finds herself dumped and warned not to talk to the press.

Yet journalist Grace is on the prowl. She has been after Paddy ever since he ruined her sister Marnie's life way back in college. Grace is looking for the inside story and thinks Lola holds the key.

But do any of them know the real Paddy?

Four very different women.
One awfully charming man.
And the dark secret that binds them all . . .

'So funny, so perceptive, so real. I changed my life for this book' Mail on Sunday

'The laughs come fast and furious. A gripping, compelling tale' Sunday Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0241958482
• ISBN 13: 9780241958483
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 912