- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins (15 Oct 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006514901
- ISBN-13: 978-0006514909
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13.2 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,760,798 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘a smartly-observed entertaining examination of friendship, flirting and sex in the capital city’ Irish Independent
‘ A tale of flirting and friendship with an original, if slightly disturbing, twist’ COMPANY
Praise for Three Wise Men:
‘I’m in awe. Three Wise Men is a great book well written, engrossing, believable, compelling. …And into the bargain, it’s funny!’ MARIAN KEYES
‘A lovely first novel. Martina Devlin immediately grabs your heart.’ JILLY COOPER
Marian Keyes
'I'm in awe... Martina Devlin draws friendship and love, with its attendant comforts and pains, with unflinching honesty.'
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Having read this book as part of a book club reading list I was expecting some substance. I was disappointed.
Whilst well done chick lit can be the ideal accompaniment to a lazy summer holiday this version of the style is over egged and attempts at humour fall well fall of the mark. It is full of superlative heaped on superlative, occasionally puntuated with some well worn cliches.
The subject matter (incest) could have been interesting were in not badly handled and also completely inappropriate to the frivolous style. You feel the author used the subject matter as a shock tactic in order to rescue a dreadful novel.
The characters don't even aspire to one dimension, and certainly don't engender any feelings in the reader (unless you count disbelief).
I really struggled, for the sake of the reading club I belong to, to find any positive aspect of this novel. Unfortunately I couldn't.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Martina Devlin's style is both readable and engaging. To call this novel Irish chick-lit is to devalue what she had achieved: the ability to combine humour, utterly real dialogue and human failings and tragedy into an enjoyable and entertaining read. She again uses the rich backdrop of Dublin to explore the way thirtysomething women best-friends cope with that big problem called life. There's a serious issue, too, which not to give the plot away shows how she can handle a tricky subject in a truly believable and matter-of-fact way. A thoroughly good read not just for women.
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