This Charming Man
Reviews
Irish Independant
In structure and appearance, This Charming Man is pure chick-lit. Four women each have a dark secret involving their separate relationships with a high-profile, high- charisma Irish politician, one Paddy de Courcy.
Irish Times
HE'S CHARMING and he's a monster. He sucks you in to his world despite yourself, seducing and flattering you into believing that you, and only you, can satisfy his carnal desires - desires he convinces you were really yours all along. Ever wanted to dance with the devil? Marian Keyes gives a brilliant account of what this might be like and, believe me, you don't want to go there.
Sunday Tribune
PADDY De Courcy, deputy leader of the New Ireland party, is getting married, and four very different
women are shaken to the core by the news. Marian Keyes sets off this emotional depth
charge at the beginning of her latest novel, and we watch the shockwaves ripple outwards and affect these women. After being dumped by Paddy for Alicia "horse face" Thornton, Lola Daly is told by her friend Bridie that she would never have cut it as a politician's wife anyway: "Your clothes are too cool and you have purple highlights"