Maggie has been happily married to her high school boyfriend, Garv, for years, but their marriage has been on a downward slide. She became known worldwide for Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, and This Charming Man, with themes including domestic violence and alcoholism. Maggie ran from Ireland to LA, to take refuge with her bestie, Emily after being cheated on by her husband. The third in the Walsh series follows Margaret (Maggie) as she leaves her husband and flies to LA to try and find peace after the end of her marriage. Now, in the present, she has angst because she thinks this has made her unable to have a baby now that she wants one.

In short time Maggie is drawn into the crazy lifestyles of Los Angeles wannabes, which become great sources of amusing anecdotes.i don't know if it was because i hadn't read any of the others in the series and didn't know the characters, but i didn't want to know them, they werent worth it! After the liveliness of the previous two books in the series it was boring and frankly I was relieved when I reached the page with the caption "epilogue". She nails all the LA lingo, from the greetings ("Hey," "Yo," "Go, girl," and "You the man") to the terms of the trade: "good in a room" (skilled at pitching a screenplay to studio execs), "mattresses" (model-actor-waitresses), "pay theatre" (with actors paying for parts as a showcase for their talent), "so great! Loved the beginning, but our relationship went downhill from there, and even though the ending was almost decent, by then I was over it. Maggie has been married for many years and learns through chocolates that her husband is cheating on her.

She could have been the Ahab to Maggie's Ishmael (that is to say, the character the book is actually about), but instead she's just a side character. The Walsh family also makes a pretty substantial appearance, and it’s always a joy getting to know them better. Main character (whose name, in case you can't tell, I've totally forgotten) goes to England to get an abortion. In addition to their formidable capacity for drink and their stoic endurance of hangovers, her heroines all suffer from "mourning sickness". Unfortunately I was bored, and was wondering what the clan were going to get up to, but to me, it seems they didn't get up to much!I've been in the Bad Place myself many's the time, which wasn't very pleasant while it was happening but has since come in very handy for writing about. Emily is a heavy and high-speed drinker, and has a tendency to nick jewellery and other souvenirs when she is under stress; but she is a woman living her own life and pursuing her own agendas and artistic ambitions, rather than getting over one man and hunting for the next.

Her journalism, collected under two titles, Making It Up As I Go Along and Under the Duvet: Deluxe Edition , containing the original publications Under the Duvet and Further Under the Duvet , are also available from Penguin. Beautifully and stylishly designed by a modern artist, they are not only stories you'll keep coming back to but also books whose looks will never go out of fashion . To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Labelled in the family as the goody-goody, "plain yoghurt at room temperature", she is on the run from a broken marriage. But instead of making our marriage stronger - as always seemed to happen to the other luckier setback souls who popped up in my mother's women's magazines - our particular brand of setbacks did exactly what it said on the tin.