The Woman Who Stole My Life.

The Woman Who Stole My Life tells the story of Stella Sweeney.
When Stella is temporarily paralysed by a rare disease she learns to communicate with her neurologist by means of blinking her eye lids. Unbeknown to her, he records her blinked messages and turns then into a best selling book.
 Fully recovered from her illness, Stella separates from her husband and relocates to NYC to start a new life with Mannix, her neurologist.

Will Stella succeed as an author? Will she find true love and rebuild the damaged relationships in her life? Or will her hopes and dreams be sabotaged by a 'friend'?

Written in MK's breezy, chatty style TWWSML was an easy read that kept me entertained but I felt that it didn't quite work. There are a lot of subplots going on here, many of which I felt weren't relevant to the story. I felt that the story of Stella and Gilda should have played a bigger part while other parts (such as the car accident  that occurs in the opening pages or Stella's ex husband Ryan giving away his possessions) seem to be superfluous.

I never really got to grips with the character of Stella and found some of the other characters to be too exaggerated as to be believable (Georgie for instance). And whilst I know that it's fiction and you need to take things with a grain of salt as it were, many of the situations were just too unbelievable - for example the ease with which the family relocate to NYC, find schools, housing etc.

Whilst I loved the early books by Marian Keyes, the more recent ones haven't held so much appeal. Sure the writing flows but the plot(s) can be a bit too far fetched and I find some of the humour just seems rather awkward.

 If you are a huge fan of MK and her writing then I'm sure you will love this book but for me it missed the mark somewhat.