Someone Like You
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4.6 • 33 Ratings
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Publisher Description
From the No. 1 international bestseller Cathy Kelly, a novel of love and longing, wishes and yearning.
They all just want one thing in life – and then they’ll be truly happy.
Just married, Emma can’t wait to escape the control of her domineering father and conceive a much longed for child with her beloved husband.
For Leonie, divorced mother of three teenagers, happiness means finding true love, something that was missing from her ten-year marriage.
Hannah is striking out alone after the love of her life abandoned her. She is yearning for independence and security, yet is uncertain that any man can every provide this for her.
But sometimes, when you wish will all your heart for a dream to come true, you risk destroying the happiness within your reach.
Reviews
‘All the ingredients of the blockbuster are here … a page turner’ Sunday Independent
‘Down-to-earth and insightful, her novels are as compelling as Big Brother’ Mirror
About the author
Cathy Kelly is a number 1 bestselling author around the world. She worked as a journalist before becoming a novelist, and has published 13 bestselling books.
She is also an ambassador for UNICEF in Ireland. She lives in Wicklow with her partner and their twin sons.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Popular Irish columnist and author Kelly makes her U.S. literary debut with a soap operatic novel about three very different Dublin women who become fast friends while on holiday in Egypt. After their return, they meet regularly and commiserate with each other over mishaps, regale one another with triumphs and rage together over life's vicissitudes. Emma Sheridan is 31 and happily married, but obsessed with her failure to get pregnant. As the cowed daughter of a passive-aggressive mother and a viciously boorish father, she deserves sympathy, but her friends wonder why she refuses to seek a doctor's advice about fertility and also why she doesn't stand up to her abusive father. Hannah Campbell, a chic career woman in her mid-30s, has a lusty sex drive and works out regularly to keep her figure, but is still recovering from being dumped after a 10-year affair. Leonie Delaney, a divorced veterinary nurse and animal lover, is a devoted mother of three teenagers who, after six dateless years, finally resorts to a personal ad to find a man, calling herself voluptuous rather than overweight. Indigenous expressions like nappies, loo and shagged aside, the details of the novel designer clothing, characters stricken by Alzheimer's and bulimia and, of course, the single career woman's search for an ideal mate suggest that it could as easily be set in Chicago as Dublin. After nearly 500 pages, readers will have gotten to know these three women intimately all are believable and memorable. Part Bridget Jones, part Ann Landers, this saga of hope and disillusionment is fully equipped with soul-searching, sex and, above all, comforting female friendship.
