One of the Top 10 Lovereading Reader Review Panel Summer Read selections.
A fluctuating time scale, all from Stella’s viewpoint, makes this a little disjointed and convoluted in a long book with a huge amount of incident. Stella is hit with Guillain-Barre, the illness which attacks the linings of the nerves and she ends up in intensive care on life support with only her eyelids able to move. She communicates by blinking, a bit like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. She too writes a book, or her neurologist does. How all this works out is fascinating. Quite a different work for Ms Keyes, very sensitive and thought-provoking. ~ Sarah Broadhurst
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'Okay, I'll write my introduction. 'Name: Stella Sweeney. Height: average. Recent life events: dramatic.' Stella Sweeney is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life with her husband Ryan and their two teenage kids in Dublin. She works with - or really for - her terrifyingly ambitious sister Karen in their beauty salon. Nothing to get excited about here. Nothing to make her particularly unhappy. Or happy...No-one would be interested in stealing her life. But then things started to happen...One day, Stella, attempting a good deed, causes a little car accident and faces down a bad tempered, handsome stranger. She hardly gives it much of a thought. But karma is hovering, and is about to take over, swoop in and change Stella's life for ever. For better or worse. Suddenly Stella has a life. A thrilling glamorous one. A life that other people might start to covet...Marian's stunning new novel The Woman Who Stole My Life is about losing the life you had and finding a better one.
The Woman Who Stole My Life features in the following genres: Books of the Month, Books with reviews by our Reader Review Panel, Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Romance / Relationship Stories, Fiction, Recommendations
The Woman Who Stole My Life is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Woman Who Stole My Life was written by Marian Keyes and published by Penguin Books Ltd
The Woman Who Stole My Life has 544 pages
£8.99