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The Other Side of the Story
May 14, 2025 2:27 PM

Author:Marian Keyes

The Other Side of the Story

*** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022***

Step into the lives of three women whose ambitions collide in the hilarious and heart-warming novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Grown Ups

'Wonderful, subtle, hilarious and highly sophisticated. You can't stop reading' EVENING STANDARD

'It had me in tears . . . and barking with laughter' DAILY TELEGRAPH

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'There are three sides to every story. Your side, their side, and the truth . . .'

Jojo, a sharkish literary agent, has just made a very bad career move - she's slept with her married boss Mark.

Lily, Jojo's bestselling author, has blown her advance on a house with new boyfriend Anton, only to come down with writer's block.

Gemma used to be Lily's best friend until Lily ran off with Anton. Now she's pouring her heart out, and a certain literary agent likes her style . . .

Soon the fortunes of Jojo, Lily and Gemma are horribly entangled.

But each is about to discover that there's more than one side to every story . . .

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'Keyes's genius lies in making the darkest, most difficult aspects of humanity mentionable and manageable . . . Keyes's plot is cracking, but the story becomes even bolder and brighter because she lets her characters tell it' Independent

'Packed with sound writing, wit and common sense' Guardian

Praise for Marian Keyes:

'Mercilessly funny'The Times

'Funny, tender and completely absorbing!'Graham Norton

'Keyes is in a class of her own' Daily Express

Reviews

Keyes's genius lies in making the darkest, most difficult aspects of humanity mentionable and manageable . . . Keyes's plot is cracking, but the story becomes even bolder and brighter because she lets her characters tell it

—— Independent

Another chart-topping blockbuster from goddess Marian Keyes . . . packed with sound writing, wit and common sense

—— Guardian

Fabulously brilliant

—— Heat

Wildly funny, romantic and nearly impossible to put down

—— Daily Mail

Packed full of passion and romance

—— Sunday Mirror

Warning - you will not want to put this down. The twists and turns will have you on the edge of your seat

—— Metro

You can always rely on Jane Fallon for a well-crafted, dryly funny, just-one-more-chapter-before-I-turn-out-the-light read. My Sweet Revenge ticks all those boxes

—— Red

Fun and feisty women's fiction at its very best

—— Heat

Praise for Jane Fallon

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Queen of chick lit Jane Fallon brings us another gripping novel of friendship, deceit and drama. She is at her edgy and entertaining best - definitely one to be passed around your girl squad!

—— OK Magazine

Chick lit with an edge

—— Guardian

I love Fallon, she's in a category all of her own - her books are great fun and her characters are fabulous, believable women who take no nonsense.

—— Marian Keyes , Daily Mail

Sparkling and unpredictable

—— Elle

Well plotted, absorbing read with a whiff of Agatha Christie

—— Woman and Home

'Hot Tickets' Pick of the Week

—— Hello Magazine

Hugely entertaining and hugely enjoyable. This is one to watch in 2017.

—— Claire Allan

This smart story (that has a serial killer thrown in) proves that even with science behind it, the course of true love never runs smooth

—— Sunday Mirror

Unlike any other psychological thriller … Like a lengthy episode of the dark TV series Black Mirror … so expertly written it gets you thinking that it could happen in real life

—— Peterborough Telegraph

The One is my kind of book, one that stimulates the mind while warming the heart ... Gorgeously written, and pulsing with heart

—— Louise Beech, , author of The Mountain in My Shoe

The One is one of a kind – and singularly good.

—— Barbara Copperthwaite

A fresh, compelling, psychological thriller that will keep you guessing!

—— Mandy Baggot

insanely brilliant

—— Gillian McAllister

pacy, thrilling and very original. The plot is fabulous

—— Askews Newsletter

A page-turning psychological thriller with a difference, this is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.

—— Irish Examiner

An extremely good short novel about a teenage boy from Dublin… This is really very good indeed.

—— William Leith , Evening Standard

Their love affair, across divisions of class and age, is brilliantly, painfully told. Although Montpelier Parade is – amazingly – Geary’s debut novel, he already knows how to play with the reader’s feelings like a pro. He’s one to watch.

—— James Marriott , The Times

It’s written throughout in the second person, a device that sounds tricksy and ought to jar, but Geary’s deft way with words makes it work. Staggeringly good.

—— Simon Shaw , Mail on Sunday

Wow, for a debut book, this blew me away. It is a beautiful, lyrical, almost poetic story of first love, the passion and heartbreak of loss and finding out who you are… The writing just made me sigh (in a good way) and I cannot wait to read Karl’s next book. As this is only a slim book, it will haunt the reader, and for me, it will always have a place in my heart. It is a book to treasure and to tell your friends and family about. It’s one to keep and one to reread, just because.

—— Angie Rhodes , Nudge

It’s a sensitively told love story and an evocative picture of rainy, gritty 1980s Dublin. Geary is a writer to keep an eye on.

—— James Marriott , The Times

Geary’s use of the second person is unfaltering and brilliantly sustained, it creates an intimacy and intensity that is utterly absorbing.

—— Claire Allfree , Daily Mail

A quietly moving story of two lost souls in 1980s Dublin.

—— Sarah Gilmartin , Irish Times

The Summer of Impossible Things is that rare thing: a deftly crafted, utterly compelling story written entirely from the heart. Hauntingly beautiful, heart-rending and unique, this is an instant classic. I sobbed my heart out and adored it!

—— Miranda Dickinson

GORGEOUS. It's so moving and romantic and I want to re-read it immediately

—— Louise O'Neill

Definitely more Time Traveller’s Wife than Dr Who

—— Good Housekeeping

Packs an emotional punch that's second to none - and the author's hallmark. Rowan Coleman picks you up, spins you around and dances you to the very edge of love. Glorious

—— Sarah Hilary

Powerfully moving, vivid, glowing with love and humanity... I loved every word

—— Rosie Walsh

The Summer of Impossible Things is utterly beautiful and engrossing - and Coleman is a brilliant storyteller

—— Eve Chase

I fell into the pages of this beautiful book, vivid, emotional, and so very evocative, it was an utter joy from first page to last

—— Amanda Jennings

THE SUMMER OF IMPOSSIBLE THINGS is truly a thing of great beauty.'

—— Paul Burston

The pages turn themselves in this perfect summer read. Rowan Coleman has written a time-bending mystery with a huge heart. I loved it

—— Paul McVeigh

The Summer of Impossible Things is captivating, thought-provoking and beautifully written. Rowan Coleman has written a book to savour, and characters to care about. I loved it.

—— Hazel Gaynor

A romantic holiday read with substance…a timeless love story…heart-wrenching

—— Liz Earle Magazine

You're going to love, The Summer of Impossible Things...A rollercoaster ride back and forward through time...enthralling

—— My Weekly

A wonderful story

—— Prima

magical and fresh...totally unexpected

—— Saga Magazine

A sparkling novel of hope and sacrifice’

—— Glasgow Herald

Magical, heart-warming and time-bending story.

—— Mslexia
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