This past weekend the weather has been blisteringly hot and the only thing to do was spend most of the day reading in the shade, and this was the perfect book for the occasion. It's an unashamedly girlie book, set in Ireland, with plenty of colourful characters to add a layer of fun. I haven't read anything by Marian Keyes before, but the woman is obviously a machine as this book was over five hundred pages long, and she has quite an extensive back catalogue that I suspect are much the same size. It's a love story around the 'will she, won't she' theme, as Anna spends a large chunk of her life alternately falling in love with Joey or hating the very ground he walks on. Fate brings them together at intervals, and in between their meetings they both have other serious relationships that change everything about their lives, and for these two at least, the path of true love is never straight. I liked the fact that we meet Anna in her late forties, just as she ente...