Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple . . .

Anna has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn't want all that? Anna, it turns out.

Turning a minor mid-life crisis into a major life event, she switches the skyscrapers of Manhattan for the tiny Irish town of Maumtully (population 1,217), helping old friends Brigit and Colm set up a luxury coastal retreat.

Tougher than it sounds. Newsflash: the locals hate the idea. So much so, there have been threats--and violence.

Anna, however, worked in the beauty industry. There's no ugliness she hasn't seen. No wrinkle she can't smooth over.

There's just one fly in the ointment: old flame Joey Armstrong. He's going to be her wingman. Never mind their checkered history. Never mind what might have been.
Because no matter how far you go, your mistakes will still be waiting for you.

Praise for Marian Keyes

• "Keyes is the real thing." --The Globe and Mail
• "Everything this woman touches turns to comic gold." --Cosmopolitan
• "Mercilessly funny." --The Times (UK)
• "Clever, hilarious. . . . Gloriously funny." --Sunday Times
• "Turn[s] out page-turner after page-turner." --ELLE Canada
• "Hands down the funniest writer in the business." --The Irish Times
• "Marian Keyes's novels are warm, witty and wise. Even when she's writing about hard-hitting subjects like divorce, depression or alcoholism, she's never preachy or pious." --The Independent