Anybody Out There?

Anybody Out There?

By: Marian Keyes
Penguin Books Canada; http://www.penguin.ca/

Despite her serious injuries and a severe scar on her cheek, Anna Walsh cannot wait to leave the comforts of her Dublin family home. She convinces her family she has to return to New York before she loses her job as a PR agent for a successful line of cosmetics. She doesn't tell them her husband, Aidan, has gone missing. While the Walsh family's antics provide comic relief, Anna's plucky sense of humour in the face of despair makes Anybody Out There? a story that touches the heart.

Read this if you: Like funny and uplifting fiction that confirms life is worth living.

The mood you need to be in: Prepared to laugh a lot.

Read it while you're: On vacation, or rush back to it between chapters of your own life.

The best part: The definition of a "feathery stroker".

Other books on your nightstand: Something Blue by Emily Giffin, The Other Woman by Jane Green.

Words to live by: "Would I be holding my breath forever…waiting for the world to right itself?"

In a nutshell: A delightful story you'll recommend to friends.

By: Miranda Leigh