Watermelon -

Marian Keyes

HarperCollins Publishers

2002

420 páginas

14h 0m

ISBN-10: 0060090367

At twenty-nine, fun-loving, good-natured Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to her first baby, James visits her in the recovery room to inform her that he s leaving her. Claire is left with a beautiful newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a body that she can hardly bear to look at in the mirror. So, in the absence of any better offers, Claire decides to go home to her family in Dublin. To her gorgeous man-eating sister Helen, her soap-watching mother, her bewildered father. And there, sheltered by the love of an (albeit quirky) family, she gets better. A lot better. In fact, so much better that when James slithers back into her life, he s in for a bit of a surprise.

Resenhas (8)

4 (Muito bom)

Esse livro tem um lugar especial no meu coração. O li pela primeira vez no início dos anos 2000 e fiquei encantada com o humor rápido e criativo dos personagens, as dinâmicas familiares peculiares e a capacidade da personagem principal se ressignificar diante de circunstâncias arrasadoras. Esse livro já me arrancou muitas risadas. Ao relê-lo, consigo perceber certas coisas que seriam consideradas bem problemáticas nos dias de hj, mas levo em consideração a época em que foi escrito.
Me incomoda particularmente a vibe pick me das personagens femininas. No geral, proporciona uma ótima experiência onde risadas são inevitáveis.