A Side-Splitting Tale
Claire is not having it easy at the moment.
She's just had a baby; her husband has left her and she's moving back to Ireland to live with the mammy while she gets over the shock.
But her big problem is not that her episiotomy is killing her, or that she's going to have to traipse through her past (bumping into the odd skeleton on the way).
Her biggest problem is not even that her husband has left her - it's that he didn't have the decency to leave her for someone skinny!
Marian Keyes has a talent for writing about ordinary things happening to ordinary people. But in "Watermelon", the skill with which she weaves this tangled web is extraordinary.
Publication: The Star (Ireland)
Journalist: Rory Hafford
Date: 04 November 1995