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Maggie Walsh is the good girl of her barely functional Irish family. Always one to walk on the safe side, having achieved the expected marriage and the manageable mortgage, Maggie is flabbergasted to find that her dull but beloved husband has been having an affair. Grieving and feeling a failure, Maggie leaves for Los Angeles where her best friend Emily is a struggling screenwriter.
The predictable satire of LA is on-target and funny. The book's strength is the unassuming person of Maggie. It's hard not to root for a character like her-charming, smart, self-deprecating-especially since she finds it hard to root for herself. Like Bridget Jones, but less slapstick, and a tad more serious.
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