I am currently reading 'The Other Side of the Story' by Marian Keyes. Three women's lives (Gemma, Lily and Jojo) intertwined and formed a fiction with humor, happiness and bitterness. The same story is narrated from three different angles.
This book contains more than 500 pages, I am just in Pg. 68, still reading Gemma's portion. I would spend more time on it in the coming long weekend.
Gemma is a party planner in Dublin and she used to spend her all her single second in work. However, her life was just flipped up-side down when her dad left her mom for his 36 years old secretary. Her mom is suffering panic attack all the time and she even has difficulties to left her for work.
Gemma is a single child, she understands that one day she should take care of two parents by herself, if there is no shoulder from any life-long partner to take the burden, but everything just comes suddenly and she doesn't know how to do.
On the other hand, her ex-best friends Lily, who stole her love has just written a novel 'Mimi Remedies' and entitled the national bestseller. Even her sobbing mom loves this book.
It is worth for me to spend time on, Marian's writing is less girlish than Meg Cabot and full of dark humour.
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