Marian Keyes' Sushi for Beginners is the blissfully funny smart tale of three women who discover that the line between success & failure happiness & sadness sanity & madness is finer than they ever thought ' Dammit' she realized 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown' Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards' career is destined for high-rise New York when suddenly she's blown off-course into the delights of low-rise Dublin But what on earth can she do about it? Ashling Kennedy Lisa's super-organized assistant is good at worrying Too good She's even terrified of a little bit of raw fish Clodagh Kelly is Ashling's best friend & has done everything right beautiful kids & a husband come prince
- everything in fact that Ashling has ever wanted She should be
- yet she's not
- happy Three women on the verge of happiness & even closer to a complete breakdown Which way will they fall? ' Keyes has given romantic comedy a much-needed face-lift Chatty & warmhearted Keyes's talent is to tell it how it is' Independent ' Laden with plots twists jokey asides & nicely turned bits of zeitgeisty observational humour her energetic well-constructed prose delivers life & people in satisfyingly various shades of grey' Guardian ' The voice of a generation' Daily Mirror