This Charming Man

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• Waiting for Mr Wrong

  Comments ( -) Add to My Stories Chick-lit, like the better class of real chicks, is no longer battery-farmed. It has lost its bland and uniform Wet-Woman-In-Bedsit- Waiting-For-Mr-Right aspects and gone free-range over all sorts of territory — some o ... (read full critics)

  dailymail published on Tue, 21 Sep 2010

• Bookreporter.com - THIS CHARMING MAN by Marian Keyes

  • Read an Excerpt Marian Keyes is one of those novelists who is never content to simply replicate her success. Back when she was at the forefront of the "chick-lit" movement, Keyes mastered that genre's formula of "single girl in the city" while stil ... (read full critics)

  bookreporter published on Sun, 29 Aug 2010

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  A moving story. I am not so used to such a "mature" Marian Keyes and I have to say that her last two books were a pleasant surprise! Four extremely different women and a very fascinating man. What have they in common? A story about the strength of women! About the triumph over humiliation and ... (continue)

  
  A moving story. I am not so used to such a "mature" Marian Keyes and I have to say that her last two books were a pleasant surprise! Four extremely different women and a very fascinating man. What have they in common? A story about the strength of women! About the triumph over humiliation and abuse. Lately I often hear that we are getting more and more aggressive and that women backi n time were more understanding and real women. This book also tells about how much a woman can keep to herself and pretending... Even a deep sadness that eats their bodies and souls, but thank God ourg randmothers and mothers taught us that it's unfair and that being a woman is a gift. So, if men are afraid of our strength and call it "aggressivity" because it suits them, then I think they should wonder whether they're real men... Very little if they expect women to show them! :) nice book! I think not only women should read it, but also those men, who believe to know exactly what we think and what we like...

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  Una storia toccante. Non sono abituata a una Marian Keyes così "matura" e devo dire che i suoi ultimi due libri sono stati una piacevole sorpresa! Quattro donne molto diverse tra loro e un uomo molto affascinante. Cosa li accomuna? Una storia sulla forza delle donne! Sul trionfo sull'umiliazione e l'abuso. Sento dire spesso da qualcuno che noi donne siamo aggressive ora e che quelle di una volta erano più accondiscendenti e vere donne. In questo libro si legge di quanto le donne riescano a tenere dentro di se... Anche una tristezza che le logora, ma grazie a Dio le nostre nonne e le nostre madri ci hanno insegnato che non è giusto e che essere donne è un dono. Quindi se gli uomini sono "spaventati" dalla nostra forza e la chiamano "aggressività" perché fa comodo a loro, allora mi chiedo, e forse dovrebbero farlo anche loro, quanto sono uomini loro in realtà... Molto poco se hanno bisogno che glielo dimostri una donna! :) bel libro! Lo consiglio alle donne, ma soprattutto agli uomini che credono di sapere tutto su di noi...

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  A book about an abusive politician and the women who he hurt getting revenge. It has an interesting plot line, but the writing style when she wrote in one of the character's voices was choppy and incomplete. It was quite annoying. If not for that I would've given this book a three star rating.

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  Heather Landry said on Dec 11, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Major Let Down

  This book was highly disappointing for me, seeing how I loved the other books by this author. The sad thing was that it had a lot of potential to be another great book by Marian Keyes and fell way short. The essential flaw was one awful, awful character that sounded like a child was talking. The ... (continue)

  This book was highly disappointing for me, seeing how I loved the other books by this author. The sad thing was that it had a lot of potential to be another great book by Marian Keyes and fell way short. The essential flaw was one awful, awful character that sounded like a child was talking. The sentences were incomplete and it read like it was thrown together in a short time. There was no depth to this very shallow character and it made me want to skip her completely. And you can honestly skip a lot of what she says and still get the gist of the book. I did. I couldn't take reading her part anymore. The other characters are much more interesting and don't sound like children, so would have given this a higher rating if "Lola" was not in the book.

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  Charleighh said on Mar 1, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  a lovely, delicate,humorous and true-life trip into women's heart

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  Krjstjna said on Nov 9, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  Great book

  Paddy de Courcy....... a politician who inflicts emotional and physical abuse on the women in his life, at the point that They are scarred forever.
  The story is told by Lola, Grace, Marnie and Alice.
  This is a devastating story of four broken women and the man who weaves his way through t ... (continue)

  Paddy de Courcy....... a politician who inflicts emotional and physical abuse on the women in his life, at the point that They are scarred forever.
  The story is told by Lola, Grace, Marnie and Alice.
  This is a devastating story of four broken women and the man who weaves his way through the worst parts of their lives.

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  Cmc76cms said on Aug 30, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Marian Keyes has successfully inserted humour in a rather grim theme. It's a good read.

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  Qiaoooooo said on May 10, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 704 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0718149122
• ISBN-13: 9780718149123
• Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd
• Pub date: May 01, 2008
• Also available as: Paperback

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