A man appears with a scythe over his shoulder, and the narrator grabs this man’s drinks can and drinks from it gladly. He then sees the old man close the gate and tell him that this is where his road ends. The story concludes with the narrator falling asleep, and, as he drifts off, recognising the man with the scythe as his own brother who had left the road a year or so ago. Gemma - she was bearable, but so, so bitchy. Anyone out there saying "but woman are bitchy" - you've seen nothing yet. She's so hung up on losing her man that she considers his daughter "half mine". I'm rereading this just because I'm busy and still want to read - can put this book down easily. Jojo is the most successful book agent at her agency and poised to be made partner, if only she can outsell the slimy Richie Gant and keep secret the affair she is having with the managing partner. Gemma was kind of forgettable and a bit arrogant, although I'll admit that I took her side over the whole Lily thing. But it's a sad state of affairs when a reader is hoping that more bad stuff happens to a character, and this is what I found myself doing with Lily. I enjoyed every single bit of her suffering. There was just something so unpleasant about her, even though she is supposed to be nice. The Other Side of the Story is set largely in the publishing world, and recounts the parallel adventures of three women. Classic Keyes, though the structure is not as tight as one might wish - these central characters barely meet, with the result that the stories are not cunningly intertwined but seem merely glued together at the edges.

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Now had better suit you.’ But alarm was building in me. He wasn’t crumbling like something crumbly, as I’d expected he would the moment I spoke sternly. But if you still think that the city is still under authoritarian regime and is uninhabitable, then I suggest that you read this book and see how the western media has bent the situation that between 2019 and 2020 completely out of shape to paint China in a dark light. Oh, and also come to the city and have a look for yourself (you could probably come during the Pandemic and you'll still get better treatment here than many places around the world). Protag #1 is a whiny, revenge-seeking crazy-person whose boyfriend moves to London (from Dublin) and then hooks up with her friend. Please, like you weren't going to break up anyway. Her father leaves her mother and for some reason, her mother becomes and helpless slag and she has to take care of her. The only saving grace is that I didn’t get all cheerful and say, ‘How about a nice cup of tea?’ Or even worse, ‘Let’s get a brew on.’ I don’t think tea ever fixes anything and I vowed that, no matter what, this crisis would not turn me into a tea-drinker. Marian Keyes is a phenomenon. The multimillion copy, internationally bestselling author of some of the most widely loved, genre-defying novels of the past thirty years - including Rachel's Holiday, Anybody Out THere and Grown Ups - has millions of devoted readers around the world.I parked, very badly, outside the house. (Modest sixties semi-d.) Dad’s car was gone. Dead men don’t drive cars. Discover how the news you see and share can affect your life and view of the world with Other Side of the Story. OOSPC was launched on 1 May 2020 and is co-funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (REC) of the European Union (2014-2020). It is a two year project looking at Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programmes in five European countries. Bournemouth University is one of a group of partners working together on this project, including The Association for the Prevention and Handling of Violence in the Family (APHVF) Cyprus as Coordinator, and its partners, Centro di Ascolto Uomini Maltrattanti Onlus (CAM) Italy, The Union of Women Associations of Heraklion Prefecture (UWAH) Greece, European Knowledge Spot Greece and Direcția de Asistență Socială și Medicală (DASM)Cluj-Napoca, România. Project aims

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Write a monologue in which the villain defends their actions in front of a lawyer or judge, courtroom-style. Students might use similar phrases or reasons from the previous monologue, but the tone will likely be different — perhaps more defensive than conversational. You could even have students write both versions and compare how they would adjust certain words, phrases, tone of voice, or even how the villain might “alter” the story to serve their purposes. Gemma, I know I’ve been a bit distant for the past while, I’m well aware of it. But it’s not from senility.’ Lilly still reels from the agony of loosing her friend Gemma after meeting her soulmate, Gemma's ex boyfriend Anton. With a small baby and a book just published, she has a lot on her plate when Anton decides they should buy a house together.I loved the idea, and some of the writing was brilliant, but it was the characters that let it down for me. Protag #2 is the women the boyfriend left Protag #1 for and she is an insecure dreamer who writes some book and sells it to Protag #3.

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Jojo. I actually liked Jojo. I didn't have a problem with her affair with Mark, and I liked her ambition. Every time I reached a Jojo chapter, I breathed a small sigh of relief at having been done a ridiculous Gemma one. JoJo: I didn't mind her, I found her story was written well. I'm not a fan of affairs but I think JoJo handled her cards well.Fright deprived me of speech. He’s never cross with me. ‘I will call you when I can talk.’ He sounded very firm. A little like… funnily enough, a little like a father. As they continue to walk around the place, the narrator sees Eliza Dimbleby, and this surprises him because he knows she is due to give a lecture that evening. He then finds his watch has stopped. The old man tells him that people often meet others they knew from the road in this place and are astonished to see familiar faces.

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But most annoying was Jojo (and no, it wasn't just her name!) who, apart from doing something I completely disagree with on moral and stupidity grounds, sounded like an adolescent for most of her parts of the story. I understand the author trying to give each of the characters different voices, but is it really realistic to have a 33 year old intelligent career woman saying 'like' and 'you know' every tenth word? And things weren't 'very' tempting, oh no, they were 'way, WAY' tempting, like, you know?

I always think that every writer sort of take something from the writer's life into the book. Especially the first book. And, I sometimes think Marian Keyes does the same. Especially if you read Under The Duvet. But, so what, if Marian Keyes decided to write from something happened in her true life? This time, in The Other Side of The Story, it's her life as a writer. I guess. The story is narrated by a man walking along a road. He is using a pedometer to measure his speed, and is so tired he has to stop for a rest, allowing an educationalist named Eliza Dimbleby to overtake him. The narrator fears he will be like his brother, whom he had had to leave by the roadside a year or so before. The narrator says that the monotony of the road is the biggest obstacle in keeping going. Gemma?’ he said warily. This in itself was nothing unusual; he always answered the phone to me warily. With good reason