Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

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When Lucy Sullivan is dragged by her friends to visit a psychic, she thinks it will be a bit of a laugh. She doesn't believe for one second that the prediction will come true; there's just no way that she will be married within the year! Top 5 list acquaints readers with genre's guilty pleasures". Collegian. 2 January 2002. Archived from the original on 30 May 2002 . Retrieved 27 April 2008. Nah, nggak heran kan kalau kemudian dia selalu mendapat masalah dengan pria? Yang dia pilih selalu pria-pria berengsek tukang mabuk, pengangguran, memoroti uangnya, dsb. dst. Parahnya lagi, dia kadang sadar kalau pilihan dia salah, tapi tetap saja melakoninya, malah mengusir pria-pria 'waras' yang jatuh hati padanya. Bahkan tidak sadar-sadar bahwa selama ini ada pria sempurna yang mendambakannya setengah mati. Damn you, Lucy!! Bagaimana saya bisa bersimpati coba? Walaupun kemudian ada penjelasan bahwa perilaku aneh Lucy itu karena ayahnya alkoholik dan sejak kecil dia berusaha menutup mata agar semua terlihat baik-baik saja, jadi dia memilih pria-pria busuk seperti ayahnya agar mendapat kesempatan kedua untuk memperbaiki keadaan.

Here's the Bookclub verdict. While most of the others found the book was “light and fluffy”, it was agreed that there were darker underlying themes of addiction featured throughout. Wrapped up in humour. And that you do not understand the reality of someone’s life, unless you live it yourself, even if only for a little while. The more mature women amongst us, could see from a mile away that the charming Gus was all smoke and mirrors, and not at all the type of person to get involved with. Let alone fall in love with. Ah, the sweet folly of youth! a b "Haze makes way for bright future". Cambridge Evening News. Archived from the original on 17 November 2007 . Retrieved 27 April 2008. Because you’re beautiful,’ or ‘Because you’re sexy,’ or ‘Because you’re all woman,’ were the nauseating replies that he gave me. Sejujurnya, hampir sepanjang buku ini saya membenci Lucy. Dan menyalahkan dia atas semua kesialan yang menimpanya, lha wong dia sendiri yang minta kok.So far this is my least favorite Marian Keyes novel. I've even stopped partway through to read Rachel's Holiday and Conversations with the Fat Girl and felt somewhat reluctant to continue reading it. I finally did finish it though, just to see if it at some point would have a redeeming quality. For now, it feels like this novel appears in sepia while all other Keyes books I've read are in technicolor (yes, my description is cliche, but it fits!). Keyes became known for her novels Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Anybody Out There, and This Charming Man, which, although written in a light and humorous style, cover themes including alcoholism, depression, addiction, cancer, bereavement, and domestic violence. [1] More than 35 million copies of her novels have been sold, and her works have been translated into 33 languages. [2] Her writing has won both the Irish Popular Fiction Book and the Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year, each on one occasion, at the Irish Book Awards. Perhaps – probably, even – it’s snobbishness. And if you like fluffy novels about a woman going on diets, straying off diets, going shopping, and wondering whether the bloke in her office fancies her, who am I to wag my finger? Disregard this review, if you fit into this category. You don’t want to know my opinion. You really don’t.

Lucy Sullivan is a typical Londoner. Twenty-six years old, she is burdened with a dysfunctional family, a dead-end job, an anal-retentive boss, a medley of demented colleagues, flat mates who totter on the thin line between heaven and hell AND a love-life that’s riddled with enough potholes to make you dizzy. Of course, Lucy is told that she will be getting married. Within a year. But who could it be? She doesn’t even have a boyfriend. She's just broken up with him. But as predictions for her workmates start to come eerily true, Lucy wonders if the gorgeous, eccentric Gus, who she’s fallen in lust with at a party, Gus of the Irish accent, twinkling eyes, and faerie dust blarney, could be “the one”. Everything seems to be pointing that way. The series was launched with four episodes in its first week at 10:30pm on ITV, following which it aired once weekly. [11] However, it failed to attract the young adult audience at which it was aimed, so the series was withdrawn (mid series, episode 9) from that timeslot in December 1999. The programme was subsequently aired a year later between November 2000 and January 2001, in the early evening, pre-watershed time slot at 17:05. LWT said, "the underlying tone and structure of the series was not dissimilar to that of the tea-time soaps and, given the wider audience available at that time, it was substantially edited and revoiced to make it suitable for the slot." [12] a b Hunt, Elle (12 March 2017). "Novelist Marian Keyes reveals fight against constant 'suicidal impulses' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 September 2017.Another topic which really stood out to me with the fresh eyes of a re-read is the storyline of alcoholics and alcoholism. The impacts not only on the individual suffering from it, but on their friends and family. And the relationship patterns that tend to repeat from one generation to another. Being a charming, affable drunk in your 20s, doesn’t have quite the same amount of appeal in middle age, when the tarnish in the gilt is showing. And people are just plain exhausted from dealing with unreliability.

Not because I had any objections to having my fortune told. On the contrary – it was usually a bit of a laugh. Especially when they got to the bit where they told me that the man of my dreams was just around the next corner, that part was always hilarious. a b c Taylor, Sarah (17 March 2017). "Desert Island Discs". BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 20 October 2017.

During her appearance on Desert Island Discs in March 2017, Keyes told the host that "[by] conditioning women to think that what they find empowering or valuable is worth less than what men consider to be worthwhile, women are prevented from reaching for parity and the gender gap in power and money between men and women is kept in the favour of men". [11] There were positive aspects of the book too though. As always Marian's books deal with tough issues which I enjoy as they are always handled respectfully and the author always manages to keep the tone light hearted. The book was funny, Lucy's room mates and colleagues kept the book entertaining and were a lot more relatable than she was. Quitando eso, muy original dentro de su ámbito. Tiene su parte superficial y divertida, pero también otras que son MUY PROFUNDAS. No solo me hizo reír, sino que también llorar. Solo el tramo final es un poco fome porque pucha que se da vueltas, pero aún así el total lo disfruté bastante. Me gustó mucho que hubiera evolución en los personajes y que uno pudiera, además, aprender algo.

I loved thunderstorms - the only time I really felt at peace with myself was during a storm. All of the turmoil and exuberance seemed to calm me.”Flood, Alison (14 December 2012). "Marian Keyes: a life in books". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 15 December 2012. What really stood out to me reading this the second time around, is that Lucy suffers from depression. I can’t say that I remember this from reading it all those years ago. Within the first few chapters, when Lucy visits the psychic, Mrs. Nolan says something that strikes a chord, and Lucy admits that ”A dark cloud, was exactly how I described the bouts of depression that I sometimes got.” And perhaps saddest of all, is the deep embarrassment Lucy feels from feeling this way. In 2021 and 2022, Keyes joined Tara Flynn in a series for BBC Radio 4 called 'Now You're Asking', in which they discussed problems sent in by listeners (they called them 'askers').