And why didn’t she change it?’ said Megan. ‘There’s nothing to it, so I’m told. Isn’t that right, so-called Meredia?’ God, I hate characters like this. It was so bloody annoying to watch Lucy get walked all over, I wanted to roll my eyes at ever situation. Lucy Sullivan works in London and her well meaning (interfering) workmates drag her along to meet the revered psychic Mrs Nolan. Naturally sceptical of all things like this, Lucy is prepared to take it all with a pinch of salt . Mrs Nolan tells Lucy that she will be married within the year, her workmates are overjoyed, Lucy is underwhelmed, she doesn't even have a boyfriend let alone a potential fiancé. I thought that the character of Lucy was aggravating at times. She suffers from depression, but one gets the sense that she really doesn't suffer from depression, she instead uses it to just not do things that she wants to. She is also very rude to a long time family friend, Daniel to the point I wondered about his intelligence since he kept on hanging out with her.

And the more he seemed to like me, the more I went off him, until in the end I could barely breathe around him. I felt a sense of trepidation attending today’s Bookclub at lunchtime, as this is when I’d hear what they thought of this book. Gulp. It wasn’t “officially” chosen as the Bookclub read. It kind of just happened...I mentioned I was reading it at our last catchup, and how much I was wallowing in my nostalgia train of happiness, when Jo said “Let’s read this one”, and the rest is history. As I mentioned in the body of my review, I was super surprised that this was selected as our Bookclub book, as we have some very serious readers in our group. I’m talking super smart readers. Yes, literary prize readers. Hard hitters. I’m talking “War and Peace” readers. Whereas I read for fun and pleasure. For the sheer enjoyment of it. If I learn something along the way, that’s great. I’m an emotive reader. I don’t go out of my way to select books that will necessarily challenge me. Enough of that happening in daily life.Lucy Sullivan's been told she is getting married . . . but to who? She doesn't even have a boyfriend yet . . . Zeta-Jones in talks on Keyes movie". RTÉ. 2 February 2005. Archived from the original on 7 July 2007 . Retrieved 27 April 2008. Jadi bayangkan saja, selama membaca buku ini saya sering berdecak-decak tak sabar dan geleng-geleng melihat 'ketololan' Lucy. Belum lagi hobi mabuknya yang bikin gemas. Bagaimana mau berpikir jernih kalau tiap hari mabuk-mabukan? (Mamah Dedeh mode on) Tapi kayaknya itu memang sudah kebiasaan di sana ya, jadi saya nggak bisa protes. Ingat saja Bridget Jones yang hobi minum (Tapi saya jauuuh lebih cinta Bridget Jones). Dan Lucy itu pemalas, di kantor kerjanya cuma gosip dan duduk-duduk sambil menunggu jam pulang. Ya wajar lah kalau karirnya mentok (satu hal lagi yang menjadi 'kesialan' Lucy) But I was skint. Although I had just been paid, my bank account was a post-holocaust, corpse-strewn wasteland because the day I’d been paid I’d spent a fortune on aromatherapy oils that had promised to rejuvenate and energise and uplift me.

Me gustó ene, aunque se nota que es de los '90 porque qué maneras de hacer bromas trilladas sobre los gays y los gorditos. Right,’ said Megan. ‘That’s all the “C”s done. Time for the “D”s. Daphne? Deirdre? Dolores? Denise? Diana? Dinah?’Told in the first person, the main character is Lucy Sullivan. Lucy is in her twenties and lives with two roommates, Karen and Charlotte. We find out that Lucy has a contentious relationship with her mother, a loving one with her father, and an indifferent one with her two brothers. Things in Lucy's life seem to be going okay. She has a job she hates and works with people that seem annoying/tolerable depending on the day of the week. After being bullied into going with her colleagues to a psychic, Lucy is told that within a year she is going to meet the man she is going to marry. Readers get to hang on for a fun ride looking at Lucy's life and those around her for that full year. I seemed to spend my whole life oscillating between feeling horribly conspicuous and then feeling totally invisible. Of course, Lucy is told that she will be getting married. Within a year. But who could it be? She doesn’t even have a boyfriend. She's just broken up with him. But as predictions for her workmates start to come eerily true, Lucy wonders if the gorgeous, eccentric Gus, who she’s fallen in lust with at a party, Gus of the Irish accent, twinkling eyes, and faerie dust blarney, could be “the one”. Everything seems to be pointing that way. As her relationship with Gus develops she starts to realise that maybe he is not Mr Fantastic after all, things don't add up and he really likes a good drink, is he worth it? Especially as Daniel seems to be looking at her with eyes more akin to a lover than a friend. Ahhhh...a book set in the days pre-mobile phone, social media and 24/7 angst. Where life was about ”...eating takeaways, drinking too much wine, bringing men home and never hoovering.” (try putting that blurb on the cover of a book now).

a b "Haze makes way for bright future". Cambridge Evening News. Archived from the original on 17 November 2007 . Retrieved 27 April 2008.

First reason is that sadly these characters are truly based on real life behavior of people around us. The bossy-friend-whom-you-can't-say-no-to, the siblings-who-don't-give-a-damn-about-your-parents and the coworkers-who-earn-the-same-as-you-but-don't-do-a-minute's-worth-work; we have all met these people at one time or another in our life. I was curious to read more about the intolerable behavior of these people. Although I didn’t like to admit it, she was probably right. Now that I had discovered that Steven wasn’t the man of my dreams, it was only a matter of time before I made some sort of psychic enquiries to find out exactly who was. That was the kind of thing that my friends and I did, even though it was all just a bit of a laugh and no one believed the fortune-tellers. At least none of us would admit to believing them. So far this is my least favorite Marian Keyes novel. I've even stopped partway through to read Rachel's Holiday and Conversations with the Fat Girl and felt somewhat reluctant to continue reading it. I finally did finish it though, just to see if it at some point would have a redeeming quality. For now, it feels like this novel appears in sepia while all other Keyes books I've read are in technicolor (yes, my description is cliche, but it fits!).

Megan was doing her grand tour of Europe and had temporarily run out of money. But as soon as she had enough money to go, she was going, she constantly reminded us, to Scandinavia, or Greece, or the Pyrenees, or the West of Ireland. Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married". Carnivalfilms. Archived from the original on 9 August 2011 . Retrieved 27 April 2008. Lucy and her co-workers go to a psychic after work on day and she tells them all one thing and she tells Lucy that she will get married in a year. Turns out currently, Lucy has no boyfriend. Within a week, all the predictions that the psychic gave to her co-workers all came true, so they are all convinced that Lucy's will as well! Lucy meets Gus who is a total alcoholic and walks all over her and she allows it. Her roommate Karen starts to date a childhood friend of hers, Daniel around the same time and Karen walks all over her too. And Lucy puts up with it. Her father is an alcoholic, but of course, she doesn't see it and when her mother finally leaves her father, she moves home to take care of him, even though, of course, he treats her like shit too. Gus moves in and out of her life, pretty much whenever he remembers she exists and she pays for everything, but Lucy likes being needed. Like all prior Keyes' books that I have read, this one is bogged down with so many freakin' details. Oy. Pretty much, it ends with her finally realizing her pattern with men is because of her dad and she drops them all and realizes she is in love with Daniel, who has since broken up with Karen. They confess their love, sleep together and Daniel asks Lucy to marry him. She doesn't say yes or no at the end of the book. Top 5 list acquaints readers with genre's guilty pleasures". Collegian. 2 January 2002. Archived from the original on 30 May 2002 . Retrieved 27 April 2008. Keyes lives in Dún Laoghaire with her husband Tony Baines (whom she first met on his 30th birthday [5]) after returning to Ireland from London's Hampstead in 1997. [5] Style [ edit ]

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Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married a Titles & Air Dates Guide". epguides.com . Retrieved 27 April 2008. When Lucy Sullivan is dragged by her friends to visit a psychic, she thinks it will be a bit of a laugh. She doesn’t believe for one second that the prediction will come true; there’s just no way that she will be married within the year! I was suffocating from his adulation, smothering in his admiration. I wasn’t that attractive, I couldn’t help thinking, and if he thought that I was, it meant there was something wrong with him. I had expected a short-lived, passionate, rollercoaster of an affair, where my nerves would be stretched to twanging point waiting for his call, then my whole body would be flooded with ecstasy when he did ring.