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This book started off good and it got my attention right away, then it sort of slowed down and I was getting bored, but then BOOM!! It just started to get soooo good once again and I couldn't put it down. I loved the way the book was written. I will continue to read the other books about the "Walsh" sisters!

I am not generally a chic lit kind of girl, but this book is really good. It is a perfect book to read on a rainy Saturday afternoon while eating a big bowl of ice cream. When I read this one, I couldn't put it down. I would recommend to anyone of the female persuasion who has ever felt fat, ugly, hopeless, tired, or any of 100 other negative emotions. You will be able to relate because Keyes style is very personal and easy to identify with.

I have completely fallen in love with Marian Keyes's writing style! Watermelon is about Claire, a young mom of 29, and what happens to her after her husband abandons her and their newborn baby. Keyes manages to take a weighty topic and add just enough humor to keep if from being depressing but not so much that she dismisses the gravity of what happened to Claire. Watermelon is all about Claire learning to live again and figuring out what she really wants in life. The ending is so sweet and unexpected. If you like Sophie Kinsella, you'll like Marian Keyes.

Veeeeery addicting. I was lugging this around to work and all over the house. I loved it! I love most of her books.

Fun read, a woman learns to live again and stand up for herself after her husband leaves. I enjoyed it.

Wonderful story. Couldn't put it down.

This wasn't my favorite Marian Keyes novel but it was a good one nonetheless. As usual, Keyes spins an insightful, amusing story about a jilted woman that manages to regain her self-respect and cobble together a new and ultimately better life for herself from the shambles of a broken marriage. Told with this author's trademark incisive wit and self-deprecating humour, this book will be enjoyable for those who enjoy the branier side of chick-lit.

I had to read this for a light read for a book club. I actually enjoyed it. Very witty and sarcastic. You have to enjoy English/irish humor to get this one.

I could not even make it through the first 100 pages, I tried and tried. It was so boring. I stopped after 130 pages, I could not read anymore, it kept putting me to sleep. The story sounded good and there were a couple of good parts but it was like listening to a friend you have not seen in a long time and lost touch with and not really caring what they have been up to. You are only half listening. I see that there are many reviews and all say the book is good, maybe after the first 150 it gets better but it took forever for me to get to 130 and I could not see wasting my time on a book till I got to page 400.

A really cute book. Would make a great beach read!

From the back cover: "February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated." Another fun and satisfying chick-lit read from Marian Keyes!

This is my first book by Marian Keyes but certainly not my last. A wonderful story filled with lots of laughs!

Another great read by Marian Keyes about another sister in the Walsh family. This was my second time reading this and enjoyed it once again. Great characters that are easy to relate to.

Another great one by Marian Keyes. Her books are totally addictive and this one is no exception!

I laughed and cried with this book. I really felt with Clair her feeling after her husband left on same day their child was born for another woman. Marian Keyes really hit the nail on the head with this book about lossing love, find self esteem and find yourself and center again after devistaing lost.
I myself has something similar happen to me, tho, thank goodnes there was not a newborn. But I felt just the same. I felt Marian Keyes was looking into my life a bit. LOL.
A great read, there are some very funny part, the family seem a bit like my own. I don't know if it is an Irish thing or if all families are like this. The Youngest sister Hellen is a dead ringer for my younest sister and she even has that for her middle name, spookie.

I laughed out loud and cried at the same time...great weekender book...the one you pick up friday evening and waste away your whole saturday finishing

I read this book shortly after having my baby. Keyes has a very sarcastic sense of humor which left me laughing out loud in parts. The book is about a woman and her self discovery after she gives birth to her first child and the man she is married to announces he is leaving her.

Read all her books!

This is light summer reading about love, relationships and single parenthood

This is a good summer read. It's about Claire who has the perfect life--until her husband leaves her after she has their baby daughter. She goes back home to her family to recover. Sounds sad, doesn't it--but the book is actually funny. You will laugh while reading it.