Product Description

Lucy Sullivan is getting married, or is she? Mrs Nolan has read her tarot cards and predicted that Lucy will be walking up the aisle within the year. There is the small matter of no boyfriend, but then Lucy meets Gus and starts to wonder. Could he be the future Mr Lucy Sullivan?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #140006 in Books
• Published on: 1997-02-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 752 pages

Review
The charms of her irresistible debut, Watermelon (1998), are diluted in Keyes's latest effort, in which an Irish office-worker in London, who enjoys the swinging-singles life but has horrible luck with men, suddenly understands why she chooses to cavort with losers. Lucy, a diminutive lass with a wicked sense of humor, shares an apartment with a couple of women who are every bit as eager to party hearty as she is. The three live for their weekend binges, and for the men encountered thereby, but when she goes to a fortune-teller with her workmates, the news of imminent marriage she receives makes Lucy look at her next boyfriend in an entirely new way. Not that he's terribly different from his predecessors: Gus, picked up at a bash that Lucy attends, sweeps her off her feet and drinks all the friend's Guinness. Though he's penniless, jobless, and without a home he's willing to take her to, his charm and boyish looks are enough to make Lucy think he's The One, so he moves in and helps her drink through her wages. Even when he disappears for three weeks without an explanation, she still takes him back - to the horror of her roommates. But then Gus goes for good, just in time for Lucy's mom to announce she's leaving her incontinent drunk of a husband, making Lucy feel obligated to live with her dad and run things fight for him. When she's back home, the ugly truth finally dawns: all her men resemble Daddy. But once she sees the light, she sees there's a man who doesn't fit the pattern - and he's been waiting patiently for her to realize it. An odd mix of witty dialogue and hard-core alcoholic reality that's compromised by flat characterization, particularly in Lucy's case. Her limited development makes her too slight to bear the burden of her transformation with any credibility. (Kirkus Reviews)