Thank you, Gransnet, for this book, which I have found an easy and enjoyable read. I've never read any Marion Keyes before. I liked her characterisation and humour, and for me the switching between places and dates worked well and kept the interest. This was a book of rather predictable but enjoyable contrasts, from the impossibly useless husband, Ryan, to the improbably perfect replacement, Mannix, the unbearably needy friend, Zoe, to the faultless new BF, golden girl Georgie, the brittle sibling, Karen, to the big soft brother, Roland, the warm, homespun Irish background to the dog eat dog glitz of the New York publishing world.
GNers have said that this book, with its theme of debilitating illness, is more serious than previous Marion Keyes novels. From the sample given of (I assume) the next book, it looks as though illness/injury - and being stuck in one place because of it - is again a major theme. I'd like to ask the author if there is a particular reason for this?