MARIAN KEYES - Watermelon (NOVEL)

Paperback, 520 pages, Often read 2nd hand copy, pages intact and tight , usual but minor spinal, cover, edge creasing, wear, nicks, scuff from age, reading, storage and handling, still a nice book, great book!

At twenty-nine, fun-loving, good-natured Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to her first baby, James visits her in the recovery room to inform her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a beautiful newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a body that she can hardly bear to look at in the mirror.

In the absence of any better offers, Claire decides to go home to her family in Dublin. To her gorgeous man-eating sister Helen, her soap-watching mother, her bewildered father. And there, sheltered by the love of an (albeit quirky) family, she gets 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…

"A grand first novel...a hilarious treatise on love's roller coaster"... A candid, irresistibly funny debut and perfect summertime read."
--Kirkus

"An eccentric romantic comedy...full of wicked humor."
--The New York Times Book Review