- Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Single mothers, Runaway husbands
February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated.
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Contemporary, classical in form, effortless and resolved.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Marian Keyes
- First published
- July 22, 1999
- Pages
- 614
- Publisher
- Mandarin, Penguin Books, Limited, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co KG
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- German, Spanish, Swedish, English
- ISBN
- 9780061194023
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First sentence
“I'm sorry, you must think I'm very rude.”
About Marian Keyes · 1963
Irish writer
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