The Mystery of Mercy Close
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"A shovel...?"
"No. A Shovel List. It's more of a conceptual thing. It's a list of all the people and things I hate so much that I want to hit them in the face with a shovel."
Helen Walsh doesn't believe in fear - it's just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs - and yet she's sinking. Her work as a Private Investigator has dried up, her flat has been repossessed and now some old demons have resurfaced.
Not least in the form of her charming but dodgy ex-boyfriend Jay Parker, who shows up with a missing persons case - the target: Wayne Diffney, the 'Wacky One' from boyband Laddz..
Playing by her own rules, Helen is drawn into a dark and glamorous world, where her worst enemy is her own head and where increasingly the only person she feels connected to is Wayne, a man she's never even met.
Utterly compelling, moving and very very funny, The Mystery of Mercy Close is unlike any novel you've ever read and Helen Walsh - courageous, vulnerable and wasp-tongued - is the perfect heroine for our times.
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An irish mystery comedy drama that I just tried on a whim on audible. The dialogue was hilarious and I liked the heroine most of the time, even if she got on my nerves. The depression angle seemed out of nowhere but made sense considering the author's own experience, and it didn't take me out of the story.
Not so sure about this one. The start was awesome. I haven't read a Marian Keyes book in a few years and it felt good to have her back. I really enjoy her way of telling a story. BUT this book has it's ups and downs. I had fun reading the funny parts but the serious parts (and there are always lots of them in a MK book) didn't get me emotionally. At the end of the book the author said that she wrote the book with breaks and I think that's what you notice while reading. It's just not of a piece.
Description
"A shovel...?"
"No. A Shovel List. It's more of a conceptual thing. It's a list of all the people and things I hate so much that I want to hit them in the face with a shovel."
Helen Walsh doesn't believe in fear - it's just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs - and yet she's sinking. Her work as a Private Investigator has dried up, her flat has been repossessed and now some old demons have resurfaced.
Not least in the form of her charming but dodgy ex-boyfriend Jay Parker, who shows up with a missing persons case - the target: Wayne Diffney, the 'Wacky One' from boyband Laddz..
Playing by her own rules, Helen is drawn into a dark and glamorous world, where her worst enemy is her own head and where increasingly the only person she feels connected to is Wayne, a man she's never even met.
Utterly compelling, moving and very very funny, The Mystery of Mercy Close is unlike any novel you've ever read and Helen Walsh - courageous, vulnerable and wasp-tongued - is the perfect heroine for our times.
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An irish mystery comedy drama that I just tried on a whim on audible. The dialogue was hilarious and I liked the heroine most of the time, even if she got on my nerves. The depression angle seemed out of nowhere but made sense considering the author's own experience, and it didn't take me out of the story.
Not so sure about this one. The start was awesome. I haven't read a Marian Keyes book in a few years and it felt good to have her back. I really enjoy her way of telling a story. BUT this book has it's ups and downs. I had fun reading the funny parts but the serious parts (and there are always lots of them in a MK book) didn't get me emotionally. At the end of the book the author said that she wrote the book with breaks and I think that's what you notice while reading. It's just not of a piece.