Watermelon: The riotously funny and tender novel from the million-copy bestseller (Walsh Family)

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a b Fox-Leonard, Boudicca (9 September 2017). "Marian Keyes: 'As a child I was scared I would become an alcoholic' ". The Telegraph . Retrieved 20 October 2017. Literary snobbery has always had more than a whiff of misogyny about it. “It is also very effective to tell women who like the books that they are reading rubbish,” she continues. “Because it is incredibly humiliating to be told: ‘Jesus, you’re not reading that shit are you? And you went to university?’” I’d thought I was so in control of my life and if, God forbid, anything ever did go wrong with myself and James that I would be able to devote my full time and energy to fixing it. I didn’t quite expect to be dumped within twenty-four hours of giving birth to my first child, when my energy levels were at an all-time low and my vulnerability levels at an all-time high. El libro se llama Watermelon porque la protagonista, después de haber tenido un beb��, está más gorda y se pasa el libro diciendo que parece una sandía de lo "redonda" que está. Have you read it?’ he asked, obviously surprised, the tone of his voice actually implying ‘can you read at all?’

On the day she gives birth to her first child, Claire Walsh's husband James tells her he's been having an affair and now's the right time to leave her. from the publisher's description There are scenes where I wanted to strangle her, she allowed James to doubt herself completely, he was delusional and twisted the way their marriage played out and being simply terrible. So annihilated with self grandeur, this chipped away at her self belief quite alarmingly.

James was developed very well, but the real why behind the affair read as false to me. I scratched my head a few times because I couldn't remember that at all. James seemed to undergo a personality transplant that didn't work. Romance trope that I hate, make the guy who actually sounds awesome suddenly turn into a monster for plot reasons so heroine can be with the other guy. DISCLOSURE: I own my copy of Watermelon by Marian Keyes. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions. Um,’ I said vaguely. I was even more uninterested than usual because I had noticed a book on the table. It was a really good book, one that I had read myself. I know that there’s no good time to tell you something like this. I couldn’t tell you when you were pregnant, in case you lost the baby. So I have to tell you now.’

So what’s going to happen?’ I asked numbly. I didn’t for a second accept a single word of what he was saying. But the band keeps playing even though no one is dancing. I was having what to all intents and purposes might appear to the impartial outside observer to be a conversation, with James. But it wasn’t a conversation at all because I didn’t mean anything that I said and I didn’t accept anything that he said. When I asked him what was going to happen, I didn’t need an answer. I knew what was going to happen. He was coming home with me and the baby and there would be no more of this nonsense. The narration very, very rarely allows genuine human emotions to show, either from the protagonist or from her family. Like some fifties science-fiction film, where the hero’s girl­ friend’s body is taken over by an alien -it still looks like her on the outside (pink angora sweater, sweet little handbag, bra so pointy it would take the eye out of a spider, etc.) – but her eyes have changed.February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me. As he was present at the birth I can only assume the two events weren’t entirely unrelated. And at the risk of sounding very sour grapes and losing your sympathy, she does look thirty-five) and she has two children and a nice husband (quite apart from my one, that is). And apparently she’s moved out of her flat and he’s moved out of his (or ours, should I say) and they’ve both moved into a new one in a secret location. Yes, Claire gets annoying at times. Don't we all? And aren't most poeple who go through big breakups kind of selfish and self-centered? The fact is, Claire is a very real person. She has her flaws and faults, but the reader grows to care about her. Because I promised,’ he said, shaking my hand off his arm and not meeting my eyes, looking like a chastised schoolboy.

Which is something I should have done when I was an irresponsible student. But I was too busy getting work experience in my Summer holidays then, so my irresponsibility just had to wait until I was good and ready for it.During her appearance on Desert Island Discs in March 2017, Keyes told the host that "[by] conditioning women to think that what they find empowering or valuable is worth less than what men consider to be worthwhile, women are prevented from reaching for parity and the gender gap in power and money between men and women is kept in the favour of men". [11] THE AUTHOR: Marian Keyes (born 10 September 1963) is an Irish novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for her work in women's literature. She is an Irish Book Awards winner. Over 22 million copies of her novels have been sold worldwide and her books have been translated into 32 languages. She became known worldwide for Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, and This Charming Man, with themes including domestic violence and alcoholism.

Judy and I sat on the bed in silence, both trying to think of something constructive to say. Suddenly I had the answer. Well, maybe not the answer, but an answer. Something to be getting on with for the time being. I like numbers very much,” replies the king of teatime trivia, modestly. “But at the heart of it, I’m proud of the books. So the numbers to me just said: ‘Well this is a thrill.’ It must be the same for you. You’d always sold a lot of copies, but you went through a bit when everyone was saying, ‘You know what? This is actually brilliant literature.’ Suddenly you were elevated,” he says. “You became a super-brand.” You can’t go round telling women they’re good at stuff – they’ll get ideas above their station! Marian Keyes But what about the baby?’ I asked, stunned. He couldn’t possibly leave me but he especially couldn’t leave me now that we had had a baby together. ‘You’ve got to take care of the two of us.’ But life was an irrepressible kind of a chap, and no matter how much I tried to pretend that he wasn’t there he kept poking his head through any gaps in my defenses and trying to get me to play with him.Yes,’ I managed to reply, feeling slightly nauseous with lust. “The car chases are good, aren’t they?’ he said. On the day she gives birth to her first child, Claire's husband James tells her he's been having an affair, and that now's the right time to leave her. I listened to this on audiobook and it was definitely an entertaining read. I've read one other Marian Keyes book before, one of her latest releases, but I've always wanted to start from the start and go from there and Watermelon is just an impressive debut book - especially knowing Marian's character and style of voice, and how it's developed over the years, it's amazing how she was able to have it come across so strong in her first book and make it very much hers. He didn’t even attempt a smile and I knew then that I had lost him. He looked like James, he sounded like James, he smelt like James, but it wasn’t James.