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Grown Ups
by Marian Keyes
My Review
I read this as March’s monthly readalong with Facebook group Novels&Natter. https://www.facebook.com/groups/451447969098103/
This book follows the Casey brothers and their respective wives, children and an ex wife. The prologue opens with Johnny’s birthday dinner where the whole family are in attendance. Cara suffering from concussion after a recent head injury inadvertently spills all the family secrets.
We then go back six months, to Easter in Kerry, and learn about this large dysfunctional Irish family and what events led up to the birthday dinner.
This is one complex, unhinged family. The parents of the brothers are bloody awful and the title is pure irony as the children are more grown up than the adults. With such a large family it took a while to gauge who was who and I had to keep referring back to the family tree.
That being said once I got into it I really started to enjoy it, covering some hard hitting topics (Marian Keyes never has shied away from doing that) some of which made uncomfortable reading. There is still her trademark humour to be found between the pages though and highly astute character observations, love em or loathe em you can’t help but admire how she writes em!
I read this as March’s monthly readalong with Facebook group Novels&Natter. https://www.facebook.com/groups/451447969098103/
This book follows the Casey brothers and their respective wives, children and an ex wife. The prologue opens with Johnny’s birthday dinner where the whole family are in attendance. Cara suffering from concussion after a recent head injury inadvertently spills all the family secrets.
We then go back six months, to Easter in Kerry, and learn about this large dysfunctional Irish family and what events led up to the birthday dinner.
This is one complex, unhinged family. The parents of the brothers are bloody awful and the title is pure irony as the children are more grown up than the adults. With such a large family it took a while to gauge who was who and I had to keep referring back to the family tree.
That being said once I got into it I really started to enjoy it, covering some hard hitting topics (Marian Keyes never has shied away from doing that) some of which made uncomfortable reading. There is still her trademark humour to be found between the pages though and highly astute character observations, love em or loathe em you can’t help but admire how she writes em!