We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. My main problem with this book is that it doesn't stick to its guns and remain a PG Wodehouse-esque caper full of improbable but hilarious character sketches and unlikely hijinks, but instead takes a left turn into SERIOUS THEMES and ends up in the weeds. Read it in a day which was handy but it kind of felt like I was reading a low budget RTE show about 'sterotypical country Irish girl goes to big city' - not for me although I will read the sequel as I stupidly bought the two books together. But with glamorous new flatmates, a scandal at work and a weird love square, Aisling has no idea what's about to hit her.

You might think everything is rosy for Aisling: she is in a long term relationship with her boyfriend, John, but even Aisling is starting to wonder when one of the weddings she goes to will be her own. John and I have actually been going out eight months longer than she and Liam, and they got engaged two years ago.One day we started discussing a certain type of girl we'd noticed around town, one we both strongly identified with due to our culchie roots (I'm from Carlow, Emer's from Kildare). Only six hours ago, he was singing Mr Brightside with his eyes closed in the residents' bar and looking back now I'm fairly certain he was crying. It begins with the wedding of Liam and Denise, and Aisling reflects on how so many women she knows have achieved the status of wife, and even motherhood, the normal expectations of a woman in the small rural community of Ballygobbard. She comes to appreciate that she might want different things in life than the old Aisling and can finally appreciate the viewpoint of her ex-boyfriend. Nicht nur, dass sie in eine völlig übertriebene Lebenskrise stürzt, nein, sie weiß einfach überhaupt gar nicht, was sie mit ihrem Leben tun soll.

Aisling is joined by a whole range of other characters and each of their personalities and quirks really come through. Ich kann und will mir beim besten Willen nicht vorstellen müssen, dass es Menschen gibt, die sich so verhalten wie Aisling.Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling is set to ‘ramp up’ for its fifth and final book, as the authors said they want to end on a high.

Yes, her relationship with boyfriend John may be over but her café, BallyGoBrunch, is booming and it isn't long before an exciting offer lands: a catering gig in The Big Apple. das Buch hat mir durchaus gefallen, allerdings hatte es auch etwas zähe Passagen, war mir an manchen Stellen zu übertrieben und am Ende etwas zu schnell, aber „nur“ 3,5*. Der Trip nach Berlin war für meinen Geschmack einfach völlig überzogen und Aislings Verhalten komplett daneben. Books I've read and loved so far in 2021 include Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan, Corpsing by Sophie White, The Stranding by Kate Sawyer, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died by Seamus O' Reilly, Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters and In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Aisling seems to be one of those curvaceous, middle-aged before her time Irish girls whose only dream is the house that their Daddy will build them once they get married.

I can't tell you about the plot because I didn't read enough to know what the plot was about -although I was already concerned about her father's appearance - my apologies. Never having come across the name Sadhbh before, I did have to resort to googling it - I can't bear to think I'm getting it wrong. To find out what personal information we collect and how we use it, please visit our privacy policy. Denn wie oft habe ich über sie den Kopf geschüttelt, mir an den Kopf gefasst und gegen die Stirn geschlagen?

So we take all the criticism on board so we took out a few explicit moments, it’s still quite racy don’t worry. Ständig beschäftigt sie sich mit Markenprodukten, Gratis-Essen oder Gratis-Proben und preist das tolle Aussehen von diesem oder jenem Typen an. Aisling ist mit John auf einer Hochzeit eingeladen und als Leser spürt man direkt: sie wünscht sich genau das. This book is written with such a huge amount of warm, Irish wit that it is so easy to immerse yourself in Aisling's life and you quickly feel like you have become one of the family. Although I really love the sound of an Irish voice the narrator's voice on the audiobook was just not for me.I think the book would have worked a lot better if McLysaght and Breen had been a little more willing to break with chicklit tropes and had Aisling be properly single at the end. The Aisling character was conceived in their Stoneybatter sitting room in 2008, when they began to observe the many traits, characteristics and quirks of a very particular type of Irish girl; one they identified around them and one they identified with. She loves working in the Big Smoke – very sophisticated altogether – but she loves going Down Home every weekend even more. Auch die Enthüllung um eines ihrer Familienmitglieder war irgendwie fehl am Platz und ja, das Thema sollte wirklich häufiger in Büchern auftreten und längst nicht mehr Tabu sein, aber auf diese Art und Weise fand ich es unangebracht und nicht nötig.