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    Audiobook15 hours

    The Woman Who Stole My Life

    Written by Marian Keyes

    Narrated by Aoife McMahon

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    About this audiobook

    Ever wished you could trade your life in for a better one?

    One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a simple good deed. When the result is a terrible car accident, she meets a handsome with a Range Rover who wants her number - no, for insurance purposes - and in this meeting a seed is born which will change Stella's life forever. What happens next will take Stella thousands of miles from her old life, turning an ordinary woman into a superstar and, along the way, wrenching her whole family apart . . .

    Was meeting Mr Range Rover destiny or karma? Should she be grateful or just hopping mad? And can Stella grab a chance at real, honest-to-goodness happiness now it finally seems within her reach?

    'A total triumph' Daily Mail

    'Keyes can deftly mix dark and light, tragic and comic in a way that only a handful of writers can' Irish Times

    'One of our finest writers' Jojo Moyes

    Praise for Marian Keyes:

    'Comic, convincing and true' Guardian

    'Mercilessly funny' The Times

    'Funny, tender and completely absorbing!' Graham Norton
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateNov 6, 2014
    ISBN9781471278341
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    The Woman Who Stole My Life
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    Marian Keyes

    Marian Keyes is the author of ten bestselling novels and two essay collections. She lives in Ireland with her husband and their two imaginary dogs.

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    • 4/5
      Easy listen. Great narrator made it come alive. Many twists and turns.
    • 5/5
      Thoroughly enjoyed this. Laugh out loud funny, excellent narrator and likeable characters brought to life.
    • 2/5
      Not her best book. Somewhat boring storyline and hardly any likeable characters.
    • 2/5
      I liked her older books better. The characters in this one were almost unlikable and the fascination with "lady chinos" in the first half of the book was tiresome.
    • 4/5
      Liked the reflective theme of this story. Did not mind the absurd respect for chinos
    • 2/5
      Far too many similarities to Left Neglected by Lisa Genova which was written 3 years before...
    • 1/5
      I did not finish this book but made it more than halfway through. I really did not like any of the characters, who were alternately naive and awful, and the main story was spoiled in the blurb before I even started the book. I had high hopes but unfortunately this is just not the book for me.
    • 5/5
      Just love Marian Keyes!
    • 4/5
      As autumn begins I find myself in need of hot chocolate in book form, so I read another Marian Keyes. This one was charming, warm and funny in her typical fashion with some interesting themes and quite a few laughs (some other reviewers have said they were missing the funny, but I found myself laughing quite often and was a little surprised to see that many readers were disappointed in this book). I was a little sad that Stella was so passive until the very end; she kept reacting instead of acting and most things that happened were brought about by other characters. Not in a damsel in distress way, though, her passivity was mostly due to insecurity and the desire for peace and harmony (i.e. not to piss people off) - this is Marian Keyes after all, and her characters never feel like tropes to me. I was hoping for a more profound moment of catharsis for Stella, some growth and peace with herself, but I guess some people are like that and stay that way, and it's probably more realistic than a big personality makeover. Didn't find that too annoying though and I actually enjoyed the more terrible side characters, so this was a pretty good read for me, and as usual I tore through it in the shortest time possible. Happy sigh.
    • 4/5
      Rather a bizarre book that is hard to explain. Picked up the pace as I went along. Interesting.
    • 3/5
      Not my favourite Marian Keyes book. I just suffered my way through it with lots of eyerolls. Favourite character was Jeffrey the miserable son. I didn't like the main character at all. It just went on and on like Interstellar! Main characters name is Stella... see how that works! Lol! The Gilda plot was fast forwarded on so it became completely unbelievable. The ending was predictable. Sorry Marian, you're still my favourite chick lit author but this was not a great book.
    • 3/5
      Irish author Marian Keyes has published a string of bestselling chick lit novels since the mid 1990's including the popular Walsh Family series.The Woman Who Stole My Life is a stand alone title featuring Stella Sweeney, a Dublin wife, mother and beautician, whose ordinary life is turned completely upside down when she falls ill with a rare illness.The timeline is a little messy to begin with, starting with a fender bender that happened a few weeks before Stella got sick and then jumping to the 'present day' almost two years later and then back in time - heralded by a quote from the book Stella wrote after her recovery - to the day her illness was diagnosed. It becomes slightly less confusing as the novel progresses, with one narrative thread moving forward from the time of her diagnosis and the other through the present day, until they eventually merge.The tension in the novel is supposed to stem from learning what happened to irrevocably change Stella's life not once, but thrice. Unfortunately the 'mystery' is stretched a little too thin to sustain the length of the story and though I was riveted during the first half or so of the novel my interest began to wane during Stella's time in New York. There is a lot of emphasis on 'karma', and fate, but oddly not a lot of examples of this playing out in the storyline. Gilda certainly doesn't get what you would think she deserves, neither does Stella's ex-husband, or her son.I should have been able to relate to Stella easily, we are of a similar age and stage of life, and I did in some respects, but I soon found I didn't like her much once she recovered from her illness. She was so insecure, particularly in her relationship with Mannix, and lacked any real gumption in general. I also found most of the other supporting characters were shallow constructions, though Stella's dad, Karen, Stella's sister, and Roland, Mannix's brother, were favourites.There is some of Keyes humour in The Woman Who Stole My Life, particularly in the first half, but overall I feel it lacked the trademark wit and warmth I expect from Keyes. There is an edge of bitterness here that is never explicit, but nevertheless present.I didn't dislike The Woman Who Stole My Life but neither did I wholly enjoy it as much as I expected. It was better than The Brightest Star in the Sky but not as good as say The Mystery of Mercy Close.