Las cuatro de la madrugada es el momento más desapacible del ser humano, cuando tenemos más bajo el ánimo. Maybe that's why I like the second half of the book better, where the family gets more involved in the story. Well, you'd need to leave the flashback chapters in, the ones that describe Maggie's life before the beginning of chapter 1.

Another thing is the way it referred to mental health (like depression for example) was very insensitive and was romantizing it.Maggie has been married for many years and learns through chocolates that her husband is cheating on her. In addition to their formidable capacity for drink and their stoic endurance of hangovers, her heroines all suffer from "mourning sickness". These themes are especially prominent in the novels she has written about the Walsh sisters from Dublin: Watermelon, about Claire Walsh's desertion by her husband on the day she gives birth to their daughter; and her best book, the powerful, painful Rachel's Holiday, about Rachel Walsh's drug overdose and stint at the Cloisters, an Irish rehab centre. We get to hear Margaret's side of the story, which is great after seeing her sidelined as the 'boring' one in all the other books. Main character (whose name, in case you can't tell, I've totally forgotten) goes to England to get an abortion.

No tener ni idea de a dónde me dirigía la trama me ha empujado a anticiparme al final, con la mala suerte de que me he llevado una sorpresa desagradable.The first-person narration is pretty much identical, style-wise, to the narration from the earlier two books about the Walsh sisters Claire and Rachel, even though these are supposed to be three different characters.