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    Angels: A Novel

    By Marian Keyes

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    After catching her husband having an affair and being fired from her job, Maggie Walsh suddenly finds her perfectly organized existence has become a perfect mess. She decides, for the first time in her life, to do something daring—and flees to her best friend, Emily, in the faraway wonderland of Los Angeles. In this mecca of tanned, beautiful bodies, unsvelte, uncool Maggie is decidedly a fish out of water. Yet, overnight, she's mixing with film folk, pitching scripts, even experimenting with sex—and discovering that the end of a marriage is not the end of the world.

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    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061828058
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    Angels: A Novel
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    Marian Keyes

    Marian Keyes is the author of ten bestselling novels and two essay collections. She lives in Ireland with her husband and their two imaginary dogs.

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    • 2/5
      Reasonably entertaining. But, this is true chic-lit, which is a genre I just don't enjoy. The story picks up a little when the Irish family arrives, but most of the time, it's a whiny, poor-me story with descriptions of LA that doesn't have anything to do with the real thing. I'd suggest that nobody who has ever lived in LA reads this book. The good thing is I'll never be temped to pick up another Marian Keyes book.
    • 3/5
      Angels by Marian Keyes is the third of the Walsh Sister books. Maggie, the normal, boring sister, finds her husband, Garv, having an affair. Stressed out by that fact she loses her job and decides she needs to get as far away as possible. She settles on Los Angeles.Emily, her best friend and a screenwriter, takes Maggie in as she tries to take stock of her life. Mixed in with her and Emily's misadventures in Los Angeles, are flashbacks that slowly reveal the reasons behind the affair as well as other things worrying Maggie.There's nothing too surprising in the plot. There are certainly some hilarious moments as well as some heartbreaking ones. Maggie, for instance, had gone through two miscarriages — something I share with her.It was a decent read, good for reading on my commute. I could read it in snatches of five or ten pages and still follow the story.
    • 3/5
      I'm afraid that, for me, this book simply didn't have the cutting edge energy that I normally expect from Marian Keyes. Which was a shame as the first couple of sentences are lovely, but the rest of the story doesn't live up to its initial promise. In fact, the overall impression was one of jaded effort.The problem stems from the fact that our heroine, Maggie, isn't actually that interesting and throughout most of the story doesn't have a cohesive personality to hang on to. Events happen to her - the discovery of her husband's infidelity, her flight home, and then the extended stay with friends in Los Angeles - without her really getting to grips with them or even changing as a result in any deep way. Maggie is - bless her - exactly the same rather facile and worryingly prejudiced woman at the end as she was at the beginning. I found it very frustrating as I kept thinking she might be on the verge of growing a personality but she never did. Indeed, much can be surmised from the fact that I kept forgetting what her name was and having to check ...On the other hand, some of the secondary characters are far more interesting - I loved Emily and wished on many occasions that she could be the main character, as her story arc was far more gripping. It was just a shame that at the end of the novel Emily seemingly discards her personality and makes several very odd life choices which have had no lead-up previously. It's an opportunity missed for a really powerful end. The epilogue is rather teeth-clenchingly twee too, as is the resolution for Maggie, and this additional chapter could well have been missed out entirely, with nothing lost.Still, there are one or two laugh-out loud moments, and Keyes makes the most of the Los Angeles setting. I would definitely have loved more scenes with the animal-obsessed film director, Larry Savage. In his three or four pages, he lit up the novel simply by being himself. I do believe, however, that I'm rather wearied of the Walsh family storylines. Oh well. 2.5 stars.
    • 3/5
      Chick lit, not bad, not my favorite from Keyes either. Maggie catches her husband in an affair and flees Ireland for Los Angeles, the home of another ex-pat, screenwriter wanna Emily. The story moves between "young woman in big city" chick lit fun and background on Maggie's life. Okay story, nice ending.
    • 3/5
      Good Girl Goes Bad…just a Little!This was the third novel in the Walsh sister’s series – it’s time to get to know Maggie a little better.The story starts out when Maggie discovers that her husband has been unfaithful and decides to leave their home in Ireland and go for an extended visit to her good friend in California. She gets reacquainted with the US, as her and her husband once lived in Chicago when they were first married – and now she gets to see what it’s like in Los Angeles, aka movie-land. This was a good book and I enjoyed the story, but not as much as Watermelon and Rachel’s Holiday. There was a lot of time spent chronicling the happenings of secondary characters and I didn’t have that much interest in them. Marian Keyes is a talented story teller and she’s not stingy with the details – she gives it ALL to you and readers can decide for themselves what they come away with. It was because of that detail, it took me longer to finish this book than the others; part of my lackluster response comes from the fact that Maggie is basically a good-girl, and has pretty much followed the straight and narrow – marrying her high school boyfriend, - she’s not as wild and crazy as the sisters detailed in other novels and so there were no huge bells and whistles going off…at first! Then the story gets going and Maggie is exposed to the world of Hollywood. It was fun to see how L.A. affects Maggie. What did make this book noteworthy was the way that Keyes showed the slow progression as Maggie comes to realize what real love is, but first she has to figure out what it IS NOT! At one point during her visit, her parents & two sisters (Helen & Anne) come to visit and it was this part of the story that I enjoyed most, reading about the antics they inevitably get into & this time in America! Maggie gets to see the world of movie production from the inside and meets many wild people with their own stories to tell and her involvement with them is when she goes a little bit wild! You will definitely want to read Angels if you are a fan of the series and even though I didn’t love this installment, Keyes is still one of my favorite authors and I will certainly keep reading!
    • 3/5
      Liked it. Good story.Not just the usual single girl story, but a married woman whose husband has an affair, and how she goes out to explore her life. Plus her quirky family and friends. 7/9/04
    • 1/5
      Could have done with being shorter, I found it a challenge to stay inspired enough to keep turning the pages.
    • 5/5
      This looked like a fun, light read, and it was fun. In parts, it was even light, but overall, it was well-written and actually pretty deep. The story starts with the main character’s (Maggie) marriage falling apart right about the time she gets let go from her job. Keyes reveals what is going on from only Maggie’s point of view, and it takes some time to get to the whole story, as Maggie tries to avoid it all by diving into a new life in L.A. with her best friend. As time passes, however, Maggie realizes that running away from her immediate problems is not working, and she begins to face what is really happening in her life, and we discover more about the real situation. It is clear pretty quickly that there is a lot more to the story than we know, but it takes a while for the tale to unfold. I loved it. I wasn’t expecting to love it. I think I will have to read some more Marian Keyes books.
    • 4/5
      Great summer read -- any of Marian Keyes' books dealing with the Walsh sisters is worth reading
    • 4/5
      Right, this one is a readable entry into the chick-lit genre, undemanding and not too bad. Maggie Walsh has run away from her life and her husband. Actually she looses her job and then decides that there is nothing to keep her in Ireland so she runs to a friend in the US. Her adventures in LA, meeting new people, finding out the difference between love and lust and finding herself are all good things. The path to the breakup of her marriage are clearly shown and it's interesting to see.
    • 4/5
      Like chick lit only deeper, serious themes/issues plus a great set of friends and family.
    • 3/5
      Maggie kommt dahinter, dass ihr Mann Garv, mit dem sie seit 9 Jahren verheiratet ist, eine Affäre hat. Kurz entschlossen fliegt sie zu ihrer Freundin Emily, die versucht in LA als Drehbuchautorin Fuß zu fassen. Es gibt also im Wesentlichen zwei Handlungsstränge, einmal die oberflächliche Filmwelt in Hollywood und dazu Maggies Leben, das sie in den Griff bekommen möchte.Ein Haupt-Manko an diesem Buch ist, dass es so langweilig ist. Es zieht sich furchtbar, weil es nicht spannend ist. Maggie erlebt verschiedene Abenteuer, auch erotischer Natur, überzeugt aber überhaupt nicht. Die hinter Maggies Problemen stehende Geschichte ist ganz gut. Aber da sie erst im letzten Drittel beginnt, kann sie nicht durch das Buch tragen. Weitgehend ist das Buch einfach uninteressant.
    • 4/5
      A fun, quirky book. Easy to read through in one sitting. Thoroughly enjoyable. For all those women out there looking for something light and interesting then read this book.
    • 4/5
      I loved this book, it was great to catch up with the Walsh sisters again. Marian Keyes has managed another fun read with just the right amount of laughter, drama and love.
    • 5/5
      I love Marian Keyes. Also like others say, I am always drawn to stories about the Walsh family. Maybe because I have two sisters and we are all different as can be. I loved this story. I loved that Maggie was able to explore, live life and learn so much in a relatively short period of time. I loved that she came through it, scathed, but a bit smarter and with more experience under her belt. The one thing I love in any book! Fantastic. One to another Marian Keyes book.
    • 2/5
      Description: After catching her husband having an affair and being fired from her job, Maggie Walsh suddenly finds her perfectly organized existence has become a perfect mess. She decides, for the first time in her life, to do something daring -- and flees to her best friend, Emily, in the faraway wonderland of Los Angeles. In this mecca of tanned, beautiful bodies, unsvelte, uncool Maggie is decidedly a fish out of water. Yet, overnight, she's mixing with film folk, pitching scripts, even experimenting with sex -- and discovering that the end of a marriage is not the end of the world.My thoughts: I don't know why this book has so many pages, the story could have been written much shorter. I must say that I often found myself bored while reading, that is not my definition of chic lit.
    • 1/5
      The problem I have with this book is that Maggie is so passive. She mooches around waiting for men to solve all her problems. What on earth was she doing for money all that time she spent in LA? The cynic in me thinks she went back to Garv because she maxed out her credit card.
    • 4/5
      The rich emotions displayed this writer’s amazing ability to tell a story. If you have some great stories like this one, you can publish it on Novel Star, just submit your story to hardy@novelstar.top or joye@novelstar.top
    • 3/5
      While this was an initially interesting book, the whole background of Maggie's abortions and such just did nothing for me. I quickly grew tired of her time in LA (short though it was) floundering--esp at her age. She seemed pretty immature for someone who had been married for 9 yrs. Would not recommend.