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Watermelon

By Marian Keyes

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February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated.

Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job.Continue

February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated.

Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a postpartum body that she can hardly bear to look at.

She decides to go home to Dublin. And there, sheltered by the love of a quirky family, she gets better. So much so, in fact, that when James slithers back into her life, he's in for a bit of a surprise.

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    Watermelon On the day that Claire gave birth to Kate, her husband James informed her he was having an affair with another woman from their building and was leaving her. Had this first-person narrative style not been so wittily bitchy, the book would ... (read full critics)

    likesbooks published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

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  • I LOVE her. Seriously, I just LOVE her.
    Not her best work, but still.

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    Miz said on Dec 15, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • Funny stuff!

    This is probs the funniest book I have read! makes me laught every single time!

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    Taija2406 said on Sep 16, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • A bit frustrating at times. The characters don't seem entirely believeable and you will spend a lot of time begging Ms. Keyes to get to the point. But it is a good read and you are guranteed to want to finish it all in one sitting.

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    Charley Snipe said on Jun 18, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • her first novel? not too bad. Claire's character doesn't come across very clearly and when she is later described in the other Walsh books as 'feisty', i was quite surprised.

    i find the Walsh series less engaging than the books about a couple of friends/ individuals.

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    ee666 said on Apr 7, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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