The woman who stole my life
By: Marian Keyes
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9780718155339; 9780718155346; 9780718179700; 9780718179571; 9780525429258
Subjects: Women authors; Life change events; Dublin (Ireland) Fiction; Traffic accident victims Fiction; Chick lit; Women Fiction; Fiction
Description: 'Name: Stella Sweeney. Height: average. Recent life events: dramatic.' One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. For she meets a man who wants her telephone number (for the insurance, it turns out). That's okay. She doesn't really like him much anyway (his Range Rover totally banjaxed her car). But in this meeting is born the seed of something which 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. Is this all because of one ill-advised act of goodwill? Was meeting Mr Range Rover destiny or karma? Should she be grateful or hopping mad? For the first time real, honest-to-goodness happiness is just within her reach. But is Stella Sweeney, Dublin housewife, ready to grasp it?
Table of contents: title: Stella Sweeny is back in Dublin. After living the dream in New York for a year; title: touring her self-help book, appearing on talk shows all over the USA and living it up in her 10-room duplex on the Upper West Side; title: she's back to normality with a bang. And she's got writer's block. Stella wants a clean break as she didn't exactly leave New York on a high. Why is she back in Ireland so soon? Who is it who keeps calling? Stella wants to get back to being the woman she used to be. But can she? And should she?