This Charming Man

This Charming Man

by Marian Keyes (Author)

Synopsis

Lola Daly has just found out that her boyfriend - gorgeous, charming and powerful politician Paddy de Courcy - is getting married. To someone else. Heartbroken, Lola flees Dublin to a cottage in the countryside. Can a new set of friends help her to get over him? Journalist Grace Gildee wants the inside story on Paddy de Courcy's engagement. Lola refuses to talk the press but Grace won't give up. She knew Paddy a long time ago and hasn't forgotten him ...Marnie Hunter is Grace's twin sister. With a loving husband and two gorgeous daughters, Marnie seems to have it all. But she's haunted by memories. Memories that began with her first love - Paddy de Courcy. Can Marnie leave the past behind once and for all and move on with her life? Alicia Thornton is Paddy's wife-to-be. Determined to be the perfect wife, Alicia would do anything for her fiance. But does she know the real Paddy? Four women. One man. And a secret that binds them all.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 688
Edition: Open Market Ed
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Published: 01 May 2008

ISBN 10: 0718149130
ISBN 13: 9780718149130
Prizes: Winner of Eason Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2009. Shortlisted for Galaxy British Book Awards: Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award 2009.

Media Reviews
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 *
It takes real talent to make a reader laugh and cry . . . the story will stay with you long after you've read the last page * Heat *
It takes real talent to make a reader laugh and cry ... the story will stay with you long after you've read the last page * Heat *
It takes real talent to make a reader laugh and cry ... the story will stay with you long after you've read the last page * Heat *
Author Bio
Marian Keyes is the international bestselling author of Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other Side of the Story, Anybody Out There, This Charming Man, The Brightest Star in the Sky, The Mystery of Mercy Close and The Woman Who Stole My Life. 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. Marian lives in Dublin with her husband.