The Woman Who Stole My Life By Marian Keyes

[amazon_link id=”0718155335″ target=”_blank” ][/amazon_link]’The Woman Who Stole My Life’ is the latest book by bestselling Irish author, Marian Keyes.

One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. For she meets a man who wants her telephone number (for the insurance, it turns out). That’s okay. She doesn’t really like him much anyway (his Range Rover totally banjaxed her car). But in this meeting is born the seed of something which will take Stella thousands of miles from her old life, turning an ordinary woman into a superstar, and, along the way, wrenching her whole family apart. Is this all because of one ill-advised act of goodwill? Was meeting Mr Range Rover destiny or karma? Should she be grateful or hopping mad

After a brief break, Marian Keyes is back with her new book and it has received mixed reviews, maybe it’s because it doesn’t feature our favourite family, the Walshes, but for me I thought this book was tremendously fun and entertaining reading.

The story is seen solely from the perspective of Stella, after getting struck down with a serious illness, she accidentally writes a bestselling book and is struggling to write a follow up. The book is spilt into three parts, the present, Stella’s time in hospital and her time in New York.

Marian Keyes is one of my favourite authors and with this book, I can see why. Our leading lady is an adorable character, who has a life changing illness, but not one to whine, she stays strong and tries to think positively and that is where the first book came from, warm little antidotes that provided inspiration and motivation to its readers.

Stella is strong and delightfully funny, she really did remind me of Marian Keyes and that was why I enjoyed it so much. In my head it was Marian sitting down to write and trying to avoid the Jaffa cakes. Her dialogue and relationship with her family were almost like an extensions of Marian’s tweets when she visits her own family. Her own relationship with her dysfunctional family also makes for sad and funny reading, her ex-husband Ryan, is jealous of her success, her son Jeffrey, who is far from the conventional son, that she wished for is bitter and angry towards Stella for getting sick and changing their lives and her daughter Betsy is fun loving and slightly naive towards life.

As well as a fabulous lead, the other supporting characters are just as entertaining particularly Mannix, the main love interest in the story. The strong, brooding type, he is there to help Stella get through her illness and offer support.

I loved this book from the very beginning, packed with lovable and relatable characters, funny dialogue, it was impossible to put down. ‘The Woman Who Stole My Life’ is an inspirational love story about the underdog and despite what others think, is Marian at her finest.

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