Angels

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Marian Keyes' sixth növel is a truly captivating story about a marriage that's gone wrong and a sensible woman who suddenly just wants to let her hair down. Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done everything right. Sensibly. By the book. At thirty-three she has a proper job, is happily married to Garv, and generatly never puts a foot wrong. Until the day she leaves her husband and runs away to Hollywood, that is. In LA Maggie finds that life couldn't be more different. The primping, preening and partying are non-stop and even the palm trees are skinny. Staying with her best friend Emily, a struggling screenwriter, Maggie starts doing things she's never done before. Like wearing tights on her head, mixing with film stars - even pitching scripts to stúdiós - and much, much more. Including meeting the mysterious Troy, a man so non-stick he's known as Humán Teflon. Follow Maggie on a journey of discovery, from suburbia to a suntan - taking in somé heartache and lots... Tovább

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Marian Keyes' sixth növel is a truly captivating story about a marriage that's gone wrong and a sensible woman who suddenly just wants to let her hair down. Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done everything right. Sensibly. By the book. At thirty-three she has a proper job, is happily married to Garv, and generatly never puts a foot wrong. Until the day she leaves her husband and runs away to Hollywood, that is. In LA Maggie finds that life couldn't be more different. The primping, preening and partying are non-stop and even the palm trees are skinny. Staying with her best friend Emily, a struggling screenwriter, Maggie starts doing things she's never done before. Like wearing tights on her head, mixing with film stars - even pitching scripts to stúdiós - and much, much more. Including meeting the mysterious Troy, a man so non-stick he's known as Humán Teflon. Follow Maggie on a journey of discovery, from suburbia to a suntan - taking in somé heartache and lots of martinis along the way - as she discovers what she really wants in life and why she really wallced out of her marriage ... She is brilliant at dialogue, sharply observant of manners, increasingly ambitious about narrative structure, unsentimental about the Darwinian dynamics of the family or the competitiön and hostility hidden in even the best friendships' Vissza