Watermelon

Marian Keyes

1995 • 624 pages

Ratings35

Average rating3.5

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...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a postpartum body that she can hardly bear to look at. She decides to go home to Dublin. And there, sheltered by the love of a quirky family, she gets better. So much so, in fact, that when James slithers back into her life, he's in for a bit of a surprise.

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7 primary books

#1 in Walsh Family

Walsh Family is a 7-book series with 7 released primary works first released in 1995 with contributions by Marian Keyes.

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Becca

Wow, this was terrible. I read this because I was on maternity leave, and too exhausted at the beginning to even go upstairs to the bookcase to find something better, and one of my friends gave me this book, so it was sitting in my living room. It was so bad, I can't even. Girl meets boy. Girl has baby. Boy leaves girl. Girl meets another boy. The end. What happened to the baby? Girl neglects baby for the entirety of the book except when convenient to the plot. Let me tell you how angry that made me to read about while trying very hard to be able to ignore my own newborn for 30 seconds so I could brush my teeth.

April 5, 2013

Deb Nance

Husband leaves her as she is giving birth. Of course she meets a much better looking man, who falls for her. This is a novel!

November 1, 1998

SuziSupporter

Nope, can't do it. Can't give this more than 1 star. (This is actually the first and only 1 star I've ever given!)

I've recently discovered that I enjoy contemporaries, however I've also now discovered this does not extend to all out chick-lit. It took me a month to read 150 pages, a MONTH. I can usually read that in a day if I want to!

The characters were irritating, the story annoying and the writing was so drawn out. I will give it 1 star for Keyes' quite amusing writing, but it was massively overdone. I just wanted to scream GET TO THE POINT!!

I ended up skimming to the end and even then wasn't bothered. Sorry, not for me.

August 15, 2017