Angels, paperback/marian keyes

Maggie Walsh is supposed to be the sensible one - the white sheep of the family.

She lives less than a mile from Mum and Dad and married middle-of-the-road Garv.

But that is about to change .

Id always lived a fairly blameless life .

up until the day I left my husband and ran away to Hollywood .

Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done everything right.

At thirty-three she has a proper job, is happily married to Garv and never puts a foot wrong.

So why does she make a bolt for Hollywood and her best friend, Emily? In the City of Angels, Maggie gets to do things shess never done before: mixing with filmstars, pitching scripts, partying non-stop.

But is this really a once-in-a-lifetime journey of self-discovery, or is she simply running away from married life? Funny, compassionate, well-observed and irreverent Time Out Keyes writes brilliantly, as always, about love, grief, jealousy and friendship Daily Mail Witty, wicked and yet moving.

A novel to both laugh and cry over Ireland on Sunday.