Product Description

At 66, Star Street in Dublin, someone is watching over the lives of the people living in its flats. But no one is aware of it – yet... One of them is ready to take the plunge and fall in love; another is torn between two very different lovers. For some, secrets they want to stay buried will come to light and for others, the unveiling of those secrets will have tragic consequences. Fate is on its way to Star Street, bringing with it love and tragedy, friendship and heartbreak, and the power to change their lives in the most unexpected of ways…

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #443 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-30
• Released on: 2009-10-26
• Binding: Hardcover
• 624 pages

About the Author
Marian Keyes' international bestselling novels include RachelÂ’s Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other Side of the Story, Anybody Out There and This Charming Man. Two collections of her journalism, Under the Duvet and Further Under the Duvet, are also available from Penguin. Marian lives in Dublin with her husband.

Customer Reviews

Marian's Best!
This book came out in Australia last week and I bought it the day it hit the shelves. I love all of Marian's books and I believe this is her BEST EVER. It kept me guessing till the end. It made me laugh. It made me cry. It is full of twists and turns and is absolutely brilliant. ELEVEN OUT OF TEN!!

Don't buy this book!
I'm an all time fan of Marian Keyes and I've read and bought all her books. This book is so disappointing. She has lost her touch : you just can't get into the story because she has lost the gift to immerse you immediately in the book and characters. Why? Because, she adopted here a supposed ingenous device to get into the people's thoughts (she writes from a "star" point of view - a supernatural thing which can feel vibrations people send and read their thoughts) and this just kills the book. It gives it an artificial-intellectual-built up look.
The characters are just caricatures, they just don't seem real. So if you add sketchy characters to a story told by a supernatural outsider which prevents you from being able to live the story (you are told everything about everybody instead of feeling it as the story unfolds), you just get a very bad book.
This book just seems to have been written too fast.
Sorry for all the other Keyes fans for "the brightest star in the sky" is definitely not written by the same Marian than the one who wrote "Rachel's Holiday", "Last chance saloon", "Lucy Sullivan is getting married", "Sushi for beginners",or "Anybody out there".

Wonderful - but not her best
My copy arrived from Amazon this morning. I picked it up at 4 o clock and just put it down, finished, at 11.30. You have to hand it to Marian Keyes - she writes books you really can't bear to put down until you have finished reading them, and 'The Brightest Star in the Sky' proved to be no exception. The concept behind the narrative voice is warm, touching and original.

However, I have to be honest and say something didn't quite gel for me. I didn't laugh out loud or cry, something which invariably accompanies reading Keyes. Don't get me wrong - there are jokes, and emotional moments... I don't know, something was just a bit lacking. I wanted to know what happened to the characters, but I didn't fall in love with them.

If you're are a fan, you can't fail to enjoy this. It just might not be your favourite Keyes novel. If you've never read Keyes before, you'd do as well to read this as anything else she has written... even Keyes's poorer efforts are a thousand times superior to most other women's fiction out there.

A note: I have a bad habit of reading the author's acknowledgments first. In 'The Brightest Star in the Sky', they have been put at the back of the book for a reason - avoid them unless you want spoilers!