Anybody Out There - Softcover

Keyes, Marian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241959349 ISBN 13: 9780241959343

Publisher: Penguin, 2012

Synopsis

Bestselling author Marian Keyes has delighted readers with the lives, loves, and foibles of the irrepressible Walsh sisters and their eccentric mammy. In this Life in the Big Apple is perfect for Anna. She has the best job in the world, a lovely apartment, and great friends. Then one morning, she wakes up in her mammy's house in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, hands smashed up, and no memory at all of what happened. As soon as she's able, Anna's flying back to Manhattan, mystified but determined to find out how her life turned upside down. As her past slowly begins coming back to her, she sets out on an outrageous quest - involving lilies, psychics, mediums, and anyone who can point her in the right direction.

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Review:

Anna Walsh needs her old life back: her home, her glamorous career and above all the love of her life, her husband Aidan. But what has driven her so far from everything she loves?

'I'd lost my place in the in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human to be . . .'

(from the publisher's description)

From the Back Cover:

Dubliner Anna is the fourth of five Walsh sisters who seems to
have it all - gorgeous husband Aidan, an apartment in Manhattan and The
Best Job In The World. So it's not surprising she doesn't want to stay for
long in her parents' Good Front Room in Blackrock, where there's nothing to
do but watch the antics of her sister Helen who spends most of her time
hiding in bushes with binoculars trying to catch errant spouses 'at it'.

Anna doesn't wait too long before heading back to her life in New York -
her ridiculous mandatory work wardrobe and gut-clenching Monday Morning
Meetings, the city of eight minute speeding dating, the Labradoodle and
Feathery Strokers.

Back in Manhattan Anna sees Aidan everywhere - walking down the street and
passing by in a bus - so why won't he return her calls or emails?

Meanwhile, Helen's professional life becomes weirder than fiction when she
gets entangled in the Dublin criminal underworld and is charged with spying
on Mrs Big and Racey O'Grady. And who is the old lady encouraging her dog
to do 'his business' outside the Walsh house? And how far is Mammy Walsh
willing to go to put a stop to it? One thing's for sure, when the Walsh
women get together there's no telling how things will turn out.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0241959349
• ISBN 13: 9780241959343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640