Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Synopsis
Lose yourself in the magical new novel from Cecelia Ahern - the No.1 bestselling author of PS, I Love You How can you know someone you've never met? Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn't. She knows about tiny cobbled streets in Paris, which she has never visited. And every night she dreams about an unknown little girl with blonde hair. When she leaves hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, Joyce moves back in with her elderly father. All the while, a strong sense of deja vu is overwhelming her and she can't figure out why! Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets attractive doctor Sarah, who persuades him to donate blood. It's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time. When Justin receives a basket of muffins with a note simply saying thank you,he is sure someone is playing a trick on him. But then a series of gifts begin to arrive. Intrigued and disturbed, Justin is determined to find out who is sending them. What he discovers will change his life forever.

About the Author
Before embarking on her writing career, Cecelia Ahern completed a degree in journalism and media studies. Her first novel, PS, I Love Youwas one of the biggest-selling debut novels of 2004 and a number one bestseller. Her successive bestselling novels are Where Rainbows End, If You Could See Me NowandA Place Called Here. PS, I Love You, starring Hilary Swank, is now a major motion picture.

Customer Reviews

Poor
I have to admit that the only reason I ever started reading Cecelia Ahern's books was because of her famous family ties. I read PS. I Love You when it first came out and enjoyed it as an original, light and easy, girly read. Then came Where Rainbows End, which at first annoyed me with it's writing style (like anything new and very different may) but once I got used to it, it was really quite engaging; its best feature being it's different style. If You Could See Me Now, and, A Place Called Here were my favourites, the former barely outreaching the latter; they were both interesting, charming, like fairy tales for adults. They left me with a warm and fuzzy feeling.

So I was excited when I saw Thanks For The Memories on the shop shelf and bought it straight away, hoping (believing) that she would continue with her fairy tale touch in her novels and trusting that it would be a nice easy read as her others were. Unfortunately, I was devastatingly disappointed. The plot was drawn out for far too long, the main `plot point' as obviously hinted in the book's summary was not mentioned until maybe two thirds of the way through. Before that was a lot of rambling about strange feelings and unease, and afterwards it was all about the main character trying to convince herself and her friends of said `plot point', despite the fact that there were obvious reason mentioned in the book as to why she was wrong.

The characters were dull (except for the father, which was the only reason I managed to finish the book), the story overly-predictable and drawn out, Ahern's writing was dismal and had lost it's magic. She didn't even mention what the main male character really looked like until the very last pages, when we found out he had green eyes and curly hair! Her complete lack of detail was enough to bore even the most easily excitable of readers. There were, admittedly, a few good moments, one-liners, humour, some passages that make you think and appreciate your own world, but they were few and far between. The opening chapter was very good - intense, poetic and an excellent introduction by many standards - but wasn't enough to save the rest of the book.

I have to admit that Ahern has little talent for closing a book, and while all those before this were tolerable, this just drove me insane.

She was one of my favourite authors but now I'll be hard pushed to purchase her next novel. I have actually recommended my sister and mother to avoid this one despite their love for her other books.

If you buy this book, don't say you haven't been warned.

Nice read
I am not really in to chick lits but came over this book cheap and thought I'd give it a go since it sometimes is nice to try something new.
So my first experience with Aherns books was this one and it was no different from other books out there but still a really pleasant and enjoyable read. The end felt odd or a bit rushed but did not really disturb what you thought of the book itself. The characters felt very empty, the only person I liked in the book was her father that came to live more than any of the others.
If you like an easy read with no brain activity this is an ok read.

Very good
I loved this book, only reason I haven't given it 5 stars is that I prefered A Place Called Here, which is my favourite of her books.

But buy this you won't be disappointed!