Anybody Out There? - Marian Keyes

Title: Anybody Out There? Author: Marian Keyes Genre: Chick-lit Rating: 8/10 # pages: 382 Date read: February, 2008

Summary: Anna Walsh has returned to the bosom of her family in the Dublin suburbs to recuperate from the horrendous car accident that has left her with multiple fractures and a disfiguring scar across her face. Desperate to go back to New York and resume her normal life, she soon packs up her bags and returns to her job in beauty PR for punk cosmetics brand Candy Grrrl. A lonely and debilitated Anna leaves e-mails and phone messages for her mysteriously absent husband, Aidan, pleading for him to reply. Meanwhile, she reminisces about their courtship and marriage while her kooky family (especially her Mum and hyperactive PI sister Helen) tries to buoy her spirits.

Review: **Spoiler** Marian Keyes is a great writer, and I love the way she manages to draw readers into her books from the very first page. This book is no exception to that rule, but as for the plot itself, I have to admit I preferred the way Cecilia Ahern handled it in PS. I Love You.

That's not to say I didn't like the book though (after all, I did give it 8 out of 10! ;) ), I loved the twist a quarter way through the book, and I felt that Marian's depiction of Anna's grief and reaction to that grief was extremely well written. She just didn't affect me personally the way Cecilia did.

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