Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes

It’s not until months later that Lucy learns Karen had the nerve to charge the male dinner guests, as well.Īll is not goodness and light, however. There’s a terrific scene involving a dinner party Karen arranges at the flat: she demands that each of the other girls not only pay her for the food, but also do all the cleaning and cooking. I liked this book so much more than I did Bridget Jones’s Diary, because Lucy is not so self-absorbed and shallow as Bridget – no calorie or cigarette count here, thank you – and she’s able to laugh at herself while she laughs at the world.īear in mind that she’s not the brightest woman in the world, but she’s more intelligent than her one roommate Charlotte, and a lot more likable than Karen, the other one. To say anything more would give away too much, and I don’t want to do that – I want you to have as much fun as I did watching Lucy take many a detour in her quest for happiness. He’s chronically unemployed and totally unconcerned about it, as long as he can find the cash for his next bottle of booze. Then there are her parents: she has to put up with her mother, whose actions and attitude belie her stated wish that she only wants to see Lucy happy, certainly happier than she’s been with Lucy’s dad. And money is a constant source of worry for her. She’s jealous of her roommates, who have apparently marvelous love lives, and don’t hesitate to flaunt this fact under her nose. There are problems at the office, where she and her co-workers devote a lot of energy to doing as little as possible. Men aren’t the only complication in her life. Or maybe it’s the American chap, Charlie, whom she meets through a singles ad. Is it Gus, the free-spirited Irishman she meets at a party? It certainly can’t be Daniel, her brother’s best friend – he’s dating one of her roommates.

On a lark, she and her office mates visit a fortuneteller, who delivers the good news that within a year she’ll be married Lucy wonders frantically who it could be. She knows something’s missing and drifts from one boyfriend to the next, searching for Mr. Lucy Sullivan is a twenty-something single girl, living in London and working at a dead-end job that pays just enough to underwrite her partying lifestyle. Marian Keyes has created an unforgettable character and placed her in a hilarious, heartbreaking, and ultimately touching story about one young woman’s search for love.

Move over, Bridget Jones! There’s a new girl in town, and she’s much more interesting than you are, and a lot funnier, to boot.

Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes