Angels (2003) (edit title/settings)

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• Maggie: This is the main character of the book. She finds out her husband cheated on her and leaves him to figure out what went wrong and how to get on with her life.
• Garv: Maggie's husband
• Emily: Maggie's friend that lives in California. Maggie goes to visit her after breaking up with Garv.
• Lara: Emily's friend that Maggie meets while in CA.
• Mammy Walsh: Maggie's mother
• Shay Delaney: Maggie's high school boyfriend that she never really got over. Shay is a movie producer that travels from Dublin to CA frequently for business.
• Troy: Emily's friend that Maggie meets in CA. Possible love interest.
• Helen: Maggie's crazy sister.
• Anna: Maggie's other crazy sister.
• Kirsty: Weird health nut that is in love with Troy. Maggie meets her while in CA.
• Ethan: Emily's next door neighbor.
• Claire: Maggie's sane sister.
• David Crowe: Emily's agent
• Charmaine: Emily's next door neighbor.
• Rachel: Rachel is another of Maggie's sister who lives in NYC.
• Sinead: Maggie's friend
• Cameron Myers: Celebrity that Troy knows.

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• “If Shay Delaney fell into a pit of shit, he'd come out smelling of Chanel No.5”

  Claire

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• That's the thing with relationships, I understood: it doesn't mean we don't hurt one another; how can we help it sometimes, we're only human. But if you love someone, you get hurt and you manage to forgive. And be forgiven.

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• I made the decision to let go of my dreams because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible from myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what I didn't have. And, most of all, I decided I wasn't going to be bitter.”

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• Being asleep was a blessed release, and waking up was like being delivered into hell.

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• Each morning, when reality hit, my first thought was one of terror.

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• Sometimes Anna and I could provide comfort for each other, especially when she developed a theory that our lives were so awful because our guardian angels had gone on sabbaticals, and that currently we were being minded by temps who took no pride in their work. “They do the bare minimum. We won't get our hands caught in a mincing machine, but that's all they'll do for us.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Ireland
• Los Angeles
• Hollywood
• Chicago
• Santa Monica
• Dublin
• London
• California
• Ocean View
• New York

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Rachel's Holiday, and followed by Anybody Out There?.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Marian Keyes (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PR6061.E88 A54 2002
• Dewey: 813

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary