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Author: Marian Keyes
Publisher: Penguin
Genre: Fiction
Released: 01 January, 1999
ISBN: 9780241958568

Last Chance Saloon

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Synopsis

Tara, Katherine and Fenton have been best friends since they were teenagers. Now in their early thirties, they've been living it up in London for ten years. But what have they got to show for it?Sure, Tara's got her boyfriend - but she loves retail therapy so much more. Katherine, on the other hand, is a serial singleton whose neatness fetish won't let a man mess up her life. And Fenton? Well, Fenton has everything. Until he gets ill and he has to ask himself: what have you got if you haven't got your health?All three are drinking in the last chance saloon and they're about to discover that if you don't change your life, life has a way of changing you . . . 'A comforting doorstopper of a read.' Daily Mail'Accessible and addictive.' The Times'Her writing is of the highest order. Someone should give this woman a Booker.' Sunday Tribune'The feel-good Queen reigns supreme. A terrific book.' Daily Mirror

About the author

Marian Keyes

Marian Keyes was born in Limerick in 1963, and brought up in Cavan, Cork, Galway and Dublin. She studied law and accountancy before turning to writing. Her first novel Watermelon was published in Ireland in 1995, where it was an immediate, runaway success. Marian Keyes is now one of the most successful Irish novelists of all time and is published in thirty nine different languages. She lives in Dún Laoghaire with her husband Tony. Marian Keyes is the internationally bestselling author of Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other Side of the Story and Anybody Out There. Her two collections of journalism, Under the Duvet and Further Under the Duvet, are also available in Penguin. Marian lives in Dublin with her husband.