Keyes, Marian

The upper-crust Casey family, Johnny, Ed, and Liam and their wives and children stay in touch through regular family celebrations, organized and fostered by Johnny's wife Jessie, who insists everyone is happy. When Ed's wife Cara suffers a concussion and begins compulsively sharing family secrets at a gathering, the Caseys' perfect facades begin to crumble and they're forced to face their realities.

Anna Walsh, happy with a great job as a public relations executive, a lovely New York apartment, and perfect husband, has to slowly rebuild her life when she wakes in her parents' Dublin home to discover she has been in an automobile accident and her husband is strangely absent.

Describes the story of three young women: Jojo, a businesswoman having a relationship with her boss, Lily, a client of Jojo's, and Gemma, whose ex-boyfriend now belongs to Lily.

Claire thinks her life is over when her husband leaves her on the same day their daughter is born, so she decides to start over at her parent's home in Dublin, and while she is there she learns that the end of her marriage was the start of her new life.

Amy's husband Hugh has run away to 'find himself'. But will he ever come back? 'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.' 'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?' If only. Amy's husband Hugh says he isn't leaving her. He still loves her, he's just taking a break - from their marriage, their children and, most of all, from their life together. Six months to lose himself in South East Asia. And there is nothing Amy can say or do about it. Yes, it's a mid-life crisis, but let's be clear: a break isn't a break up - yet . . . However, for Amy it's enough to send her - along with her extended family of gossips, misfits and troublemakers - teetering over the edge. For a lot can happen in six-months. When Hugh returns, if he returns, will he be the same man she married? Will Amy be the same woman? Because if Hugh is on a break from their marriage, then so is she . ..

"... Helen has had a tough time finding her way in the world--at thirty-three, she has her job as a private investigator that has proven less than fruitful and after losing her flat, she's moved back in with Mammy Walsh. Her hunky new boyfriend, Artie, and his three adorable children are a great distraction, but his beautiful ex-wife lives a little too close for comfort. Meanwhile, Helen runs into her ex-boyfriend Jay Parker and reluctantly signs on to help him locate Wayne Diffney, the recently disappeared fourth member of Ireland's biggest mid-nineties boy band, Laddz. ... Wayne hasn't left a trace, and Helen throws herself into the search wholeheartedly, leaving no stone unturned while watching her own life slowly fall apart, one unpaid bill at a time"--Provided by publisher.

A wandering spirit brings an expectancy of change to the residents of a Dublin town house, including forty-year-old public relations representative Katie, who has just dumped her commitment-phobic boyfriend; Lydia, a sassy cab driver having a casual affair while trying to figure out what to do about her mother's advancing dementia; Jemima, an aging psychic invaded by her hunky foster son--just cast in a television show; and a struggling newlywed couple.

A wandering spirit brings an expectancy of change to the residents of a Dublin town house, including forty-year-old public relations representative Katie, who has just dumped her commitment-phobic boyfriend; Lydia, a sassy cab driver having a casual affair while trying to figure out what to do about her mother's advancing dementia; an aging psychic invaded by her hunky foster son--just cast in a television show; and a struggling newlywed couple.

Anna Walsh, happy with a great job as a public relations executive, a lovely New York apartment, and perfect husband, has to slowly rebuild her life when she wakes in her parents' Dublin home to discover she has been in an automobile accident and her husband is strangely absent.