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Marian Keyes' Top Book Recommendations

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So Lucky

Dawn O’Porter

4.3
IS ANYONE’S LIFE . . .

Beth shows that women really can have it all.
Ruby lives life by her own rules.
And then there’s Lauren, living the dream.

AS PERFECT AS IT LOOKS?

Beth hasn’t had sex in a year.
Ruby feels like she’s failing.
Lauren’s happiness is fake news.

And it just takes one shocking event to make the truth come tumbling out…


Fearless, frank and for everyone who’s ever doubted themselves, So Luc
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@delphiegray1 Being frank, I would LOVE the swag 😉 But I really did enjoy the book 😊😊😊😊 [source]

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Chris O'dowd

Yo! If you’re kicking around LA tomorrow, please join us to enjoy a lovely chat with my wife! The bestselling author and all-round good egg, Dawn O’Porter will be chatting about her glorious new book, #SoLucky https://t.co/8Tjw8Vk3dP [source]

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Louis Theroux

This is me earlier today tucking into @hotpatooties new book. (I do love my body.) https://t.co/1B9D3fn4ZW [source]

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Know My Name

Chanel Miller

4.7
The riveting, powerful memoir of the woman whose statement to Brock Turner gave voice to millions of survivors.

She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went
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Charlie Brinkhurstcuff

Chanel Miller's book is breathtaking and painful [source]

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Laura I. Gómez

Finished Chanel Miller's book. My eyes and soil are still raw from emotion. What a powerful memoir. [source]

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Cruel Acts

Jane Casey

4.3
Leo Stone is a killer. A year ago, he was convicted of murdering two women and sentenced to life without parole. But now, a juror from his trial has revealed the jury was prejudiced, and a retrial is called.

Detectives Maeve Kerrigan and Josh Derwent are tasked with re-examining the evidence. Before long, they uncover links between Stone and a possible third victim.

But with Stone behind bars, a fou
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Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell

4.5
Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, HAMNET is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child.

Warwickshire in the 1580s. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. She settles with her husband in Henley street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughte
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If I Never Met You

Mhairi McFarlane

4.3
If faking love is this easy... how do you know when it’s real?

When her partner of over a decade suddenly ends things, Laurie is left reeling—not only because they work at the same law firm and she has to see him every day. Her once perfect life is in shambles and the thought of dating again in the age of Tinder is nothing short of horrifying. When news of her ex’s pregnant girlfriend hits the off
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Poems and Songs

Leonard Cohen, Robert Faggen

4.7
A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-ongwriters in the world.

In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genres and generations. This anthology contains a cross section of his five decades of influential wo
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Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel

Rosita Boland

4.3


From her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. In the last thirty years she has visited some of the most remote parts of the globe carrying little more than a battered rucksack and a diary.

Documenting nine journeys from nine different moments in her life, Elsewhere reveals how exploring the world – and those we meet along the way –
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The Lying Room

Nicci French

3.9
One little secret between a married woman, her lover, and a killer.

It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morning-after visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their pied-à-t
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9

Overcoming: A Memoir

Vicky Phelan

4.7
When Vicky Phelan delivered an emotionally charged statement from the steps of the Four Courts in April 2018 - having refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement in the settlement of her action against the HSE - she unearthed the medical and political scandal of our times. It would emerge that, like Vicky, 220 other women who were diagnosed with cervical cancer were not informed that a clinical aud
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Seven Letters

J P. Monninger

4.1
J. P. Monninger, author of the international bestseller The Map That Leads to You, the novel Nicholas Sparks called “romantic and unforgettable", tells a poignant love story of the ways the world divides two souls—and the way that love brings them together.

Kate Moreton is in Ireland on sabbatical from her teaching position at Dartmouth College when she meets Ozzie Ferriter, a fisherman and a veter
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The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

Mark Nepo

4.5
Philosopher-poet and cancer survivor, Mark Nepo opens a new season of freedom and joy--an escape from deadening, asleep-at-the wheel sameness--that is both profound and clarifying. His spiritual daybook is a summons to reclaim aliveness, liberate the self, take each day one at a time, and to savor the beauty offered by life's unfolding. Reading his poetic prose is like being given second sight, ex
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Jamie Lee Curtis

The most important book I have ever read, the best gift I have ever given. A daily touchstone to center, balance, inspire & comfort. I was honored @marknepo asked me to write the forward for this 20th anniversary edition. It is available now for pre-order. Publication date 1/1/20 https://t.co/6PIQFBI1Wz [source]

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The Family Gift: Treat yourself to the heartwarming, hilarious read from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Cathy Kelly

3.9
'Honest, funny, clever, it sparkles with witty, wry observations on modern life. I loved it' Marian Keyes

Treat yourself to the heartwarming, hilarious new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Cathy Kelly!

Freya Abalone has a big, messy, wonderful family, a fantastic career, and a new house.

But that's on the outside.

On the inside, she's got Mildred - the name she's given to that nagging inner critic w

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