This Charming Man

Jul 18, 2025 4:14 AM

Author:Marian Keyes

This Charming Man

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

Relish the wit and wisdom of Marian Keyes in this story of four women caught up in what seems like love, but may be something much darker . . . from the No. 1 bestselling author of Grown Ups

'So funny, so perceptive, so real . . . I changed my life for this book' MAIL ON SUNDAY

'An emotional tour de force with genuine human warmth' INDEPENDENT

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'Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married'

Slick, handsome politician Paddy de Courcy is on the up. His party is set to do well in the elections and he's just announced his engagement to the beautiful Alicia.

Which is news to his girlfriend, Lola, who, within hours, finds herself dumped and warned not to talk to the press.

Yet journalist Grace is on the prowl. She has been after Paddy ever since he ruined her sister Marnie's life way back in college.

Grace is looking for the inside story and thinks Lola holds the key . . .

But do any of them know the real Paddy?

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'The laughs come fast and furious . . . a gripping, compelling tale' Sunday Independent

'The queen of page-turners . . . brimming with her trademark down-to-earth wit' Cosmopolitan

'Gripping from the start . . . the master at her best' Daily Telegraph

Winner of the British Book Awards May 2022

Reviews

This is an emotional tour de force, with a plot that packs great power but is lifted, as always, by genuine human warmth

—— Independent

The laughs come fast and furious . . . a gripping, compelling tale

—— Sunday Independent

The queen of page-turners . . . brimming with her trademark down-to-earth wit

—— Cosmopolitan

Gripping from the start . . . the master at her best

—— Daily Telegraph

Keyes' multi-layered plotting has never been as ingenious as in this . . . It's her best book yet

—— Irish Times

P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection

—— Julian Fellowes

A genius ... Elusive, delicate but lasting

—— Alan Ayckbourn

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny

—— Arabella Weir

The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon

—— Kathy Lette

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

—— Hugh Laurie

The greatest comic writer ever

—— Douglas Adams

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

—— Sebastian Faulks

Sublime comic genius

—— Ben Elton

You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour

—— Stephen Fry

To pick up a Wodehouse novel is to find oneself in the presence of genius - no writer has ever given me so much pure enjoyment

—— John Julius Norwich

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!

—— Lindsey Davis