When I read my favorite characters’ part like Cara and Nell and let’s not forget Bridey who is the REAL GROWN UP of this book because all of the parents have so many faults, buried their heads in sand, dealing with their own misery and acting immature when Bridey tries to push them gather their wits. This is the first time, I changed my mind about how much stars a book deserved. We learn more about the family members’ background stories, resentments, dirty secrets, grudges, problematic obsessions, the things they hide behind the big family façade. (Actually this is how the book starts and we move back to six months ago, an entire family vacation to understand the problems from the beginning) So one day, Cara gets concussion and at a family dinner she starts to spill beans about the big family secrets. Nell is also carefree, adventurous, confident, artist with her thrift shop, baggy clothes with her pink hair (a little older version of Billie Eilish) But Liam’s secretive and over protective attitudes around his daughters slowly creates troubles in their sweet paradise. And he is remarried with Nell, twice younger than him. I loved their children as well.Īnd Liam, famous runner and now biker, divorced from his wife who took the custody of her two children to move to the US. She is hard worker, problem solver, flexible, smart but she also deals with her eating disorders and secretly fights with her bulimia problem. And his wife Cara is my favorite character. Johnny married with grocery empire queen Jessie- my least favorite character likes to control people by over spending her money to earn their time and respect, looks like always gives you encouraging compliments: “Oh, you look fantastic this hippo costume!”, “Wow! What a fantastic bulldog! Wow, you said it’s not a dog! It’s your 3 year old son! Okay, I’m taking the bone back!” Yes! I want to skip her parts so bad! I confess right now!) He has problems with step child Ferdia who thinks he’s better than anyone and suffering from bad breakup!Įd lives in the shadow of too charming but also pretentious brothers, sweetest guy and my favorite of the brothers.

This is a long, witty, dramatic, hilarious story about three charming brothers and their wives and their children…Casey Brothers: Johnny, Ed and Liam, victims of cold hearted and authoritative parents, trying to shape their lives by having their own big families.

A few times, I turned back and read some parts again not confuse a character with the other one. A humongous family and tons of characters made me feel like I’m watching German series “Dark”, trying to remember the names, their connections, back stories. Marian Keyes presents another batshit crazy, complex, dysfunctional family drama.

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