Her journalism, collected under two titles, Making It Up As I Go Along and Under the Duvet: Deluxe Edition , containing the original publications Under the Duvet and Further Under the Duvet , are also available from Penguin. And my love affair with Marian Keyes continues to thrive, in spite of my distaste for chick lit as a genre. In the last 30 pages or so, Maggie and her husband simply decide that they want to give it another go and try to fix their marriage.

Or so she believed until she discovers that her husband is having an affair and her boss is going to fire her. That credo is what makes Keyes's novels so interesting and so frustrating, and what makes her an artist manqué as well as a marketing phenomenon.

As you work through the book you find out more about her marriage, miscarriages and her relationship with another lover from her teenage years who she never really got over. A few years ago I read a few Marian Keyes books and I couldn’t remember which ones I had read from the blurb on the back… Probably not a good sign.

You could cut away almost every scene between page 80 and page 400 and you'd still be able to understand the final 80 pages.Angels is a book that will make you laugh, cry, and, most of all, hope against hope for a good outcome for the fabulous Maggie Walsh. I'm making it sound much more dramatic than it actually was, which is strange because I never used to have a penchant for dramatics. Devastated, she decides the only thing to do is to run for the shelter of her best friend, Emily, who lives in Los Angeles. Her two collections of journalism, Making it up as I Go Along and Under the Duvet: Deluxe Edition are also available from Penguin.

Labelled in the family as the goody-goody, "plain yoghurt at room temperature", she is on the run from a broken marriage. She then travels out to LA to see a friend of hers and stay there for a month to get her head together. She's not there to be cared about by the reader, she's only a vehicle for more scenes about how crazy Hollywood and the movie business is. No deja de ser un libro escrito en 2002 y plagado de referencias culturales de Los Angeles e Irlanda, zonas con las que no estoy muy familiarizada, pero su humor ácido, su frescura y espontaneidad siguen siendo para todos los públicos y no falla en sus intentos por arrancarme una carcajada de madrugada. También se agradece la presencia de secundarios como Emily, Troy (me habría gustado ver alguna escena de los dos juntos al final, eso sí) y Lara.

Loved the beginning, but our relationship went downhill from there, and even though the ending was almost decent, by then I was over it. These themes are especially prominent in the novels she has written about the Walsh sisters from Dublin: Watermelon, about Claire Walsh's desertion by her husband on the day she gives birth to their daughter; and her best book, the powerful, painful Rachel's Holiday, about Rachel Walsh's drug overdose and stint at the Cloisters, an Irish rehab centre. Unlike Rachel, who is in total denial and has to be mercilessly stripped of all self-esteem before she confesses to the reader, Maggie is a reliable narrator, but she takes her own sweet time about revealing herself. She thinks it will be good to get away for awhile, although she has some ulterior motivation involving an old boyfriend who frequents the Hollywood scene.