It's bad enough that Claire's husband James left her the day he was at the birth of their first child - I mean, if he though it was going to upset him that much he should have just stayed at home - but to rub salt into the epistomy, he didn't even have the decency to leave her for someone skinny! He's just abandoned, leaving Claire with a newborn baby, a broken heart, two extra stone and an-er-birth canal ten times its normal size. In the absence of any better offers, Claire goes home to her family. To her beautiful sister Helen, her soap-watching mother, her bewildered father. And in a story that's both hilarious and bitter-sweet, Claire get better. A lot better. In fact so much better that when James slithers back into her life he's in for a bit of a surprise.
De Waltons Reeks
Deze serie duikt in het ingewikkelde weefsel van het gezinsleven, waarbij humor en drama worden vermengd met bitterzoete momenten. Volg de personages terwijl ze liefde, verlies en onverwachte levenswendingen doorkruisen. Elk verhaal biedt een intiem kijkje in het smeden van relaties en het vinden van geluk te midden van uitdagingen. Het is een verhaal over veerkracht, familiebanden en de reis naar persoonlijke heling en herontdekking.






Aanbevolen leesvolgorde
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- 2Au programme : jacuzzi, bains moussants, cocktails au bord de la piscine et séances de massages. Voilà comment Rachel s'imagine la vie au Prieuré, un centre de désintoxication pour vedette du show-biz. Persuadée qu'elle n'est pas droguée, elle se réjouit de ces trois semaines de cure forcée. On a vu pire. Seulement papa et maman ont choisi la formule économique. Et ça change tout ! Levée sept heures, couchée à neuf ! Repas à la cantine et tâches ménagères obligatoires. Enfin, le bouquet : thérapie de groupes tous les après-midi. Finie la belle vie, les bars branchés de New York, les virées avec Luke et sa bande. Désormais, c'est Chaquie la dépressive, John l'atrabilaire et Jacqueline dans le rôle de l'infirmière autoritaire. Pour Rachel, des vacances d'un tout nouveau genre... 
- 2Rachel ist begeistert – vom Partyleben ihrer Traumstadt New York und von Luke, ihrem neuen Freund. Bis zu der einen Nacht, in der alles schiefläuft. Rachel erkennt, dass sie ein ernstes Problem lösen muss, um glücklich zu werden. 
- 2Rachel´s holiday- 640bladzijden
- 23 uur lezen
 RACHEL'S HOLIDAY, Marian's classic novel about addiction, is being given a new lease of life with a fantastic new jacket treatment. Here's Rachel Walsh, twenty-seven and the miserable owner of size 8 feet. She has regular congress with Luke Costello, a man who wears his leather trousers tight. And she's fond - some might say too fond - of recreational drugs. Until she finds herself being frogmarched to the Cloisters - Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She's outraged. Surely she's not thin enough to be an addict? Heartsick and Luke-sick, she seeks redemption in the shape of Chris, a Man with a Past. A man who might be more trouble than he's worth. 
- 3The internationally bestselling author of Last Chance Saloon, the incomparable Marian Keyes is back with a delirious celebration of life, love, and sisterhood in La-La Land. The only one of her siblings not burdened with the "diva gene," Maggie Walsh always prided herself on her normalcy -- until she caught her irreproachable husband having an affair and was sacked from her dependable job. Suddenly her perfectly organized existence has become a perfect mess. Rather than stew in her sorrow, she decides, for the first time in her life, to do something daring -- and flees to the shelter of 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 everything. And before she's through, neither the City of Angels nor Maggie Walsh will ever be the same again. 
- 4Le " Meilleur Boulot du Monde " à New York pour une marque de cosmétiques ultra-branchées, une garde robe de rêve, une meilleure amie très fashion, une famille irlandaise gentiment foldingue et Aidan, un parfait petit mari, à la fois adorable et sexy : de l'avis de tous, Anna Wash est une sacrée veinarde. Jusqu'à ce terrible accident qui la ramène tout droit à Dublin, sur le canapé de se parents, entre plâtre, cicatrices, médicaments, séries télé et zizanie familiale. Mais Anna est bien décidée à retrouver sa trépidante vie-new-yorkaise et son homme au plus vite. Aidant qui, depuis l'accident, n'a plus donné signe de vie... Anna est prête à tout pour le retrouver, quitte à mettre la Grosse Pomme sens dessus dessous ! 
- 4Anybody Out There- 624bladzijden
- 22 uur lezen
 Life is perfect for Anna Walsh. She has the "Best Job in the World" as a PR exec for a top-selling urban beauty brand, a lovely apartment in New York, and a perfect husband - the love of her life, Aidan Maddox. Until the morning she wakes up in her mammy's living room in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, and completely smashed-up hands - and no memory of how she got there. While her mammy plays nursemaid (just like all of her favorite nurses on her soaps), and her sister Helen sits in wet hedges doing her private investigator work for Lucky Star PI, Anna tries to get better and keeps wondering why Aidan won't return her phone calls or e-mails. Recuperating from her injuries, a mystified Anna returns to Manhattan. Slowly beginning to remember what happened, she sets off on a search to find Aidan - a hilarious quest involving lilies (she can't stop smelling them), psychics, mediums, and anyone in the city who can promise her a reunion with her beloved. 
- 5Meet Helen, youngest of the Walsh sisters, black sheep of the family and a law unto herself. She was sacked from every job she ever had before she found her true calling as a private investigator. But times are tough for PIs and Helen's had no choice but to take on the case of missing boyband has-been Wayne Diffney. 

