- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; (Reissue) edition (2 July 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006514588
- ISBN-13: 978-0006514589
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,262,207 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘A real, believable, compelling read. This is my Ireland, these are the women I know. Martina Devlin draws friendship and love, with its attendant comfort and pains, with unflinching honesty. And into the bargain, it’s funny!… I’m in awe.’
Marian Keyes
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A warm, witty and wise novel about love, friendship and being in your thirties.
Gloria, Eimear and Kate have been friends since they were a trio of six-year-olds cast as the Three Wise Men in the nativity play.
Twenty-five years on, they’ve left Omagh for Dublin and grown up to be Three Unwise Women, all too prone to misuse the gifts they’ve been given. Eimear’s beauty captivates men but robs her of independence. Kate’s dazzling wit blinds her to the consequences of betraying a friend. And Gloria’s urge to nurture, thwarted by infertility, threatens to destroy everything she holds dear.
Aided and abetted in their misdeeds by the irresistible Jack, philandering poet and seducer extraordinaire, the troika find themselves putting their friendship to a test from which it may never recover.
To this black comedy Martina Devlin brings a delightful lightness of touch, a turn of phrase to treasure, and three characters to take to your heart.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a really annoying book. Martina Devlin has tried to write a 'clever' book by using one long word where two simple ones would be more believable from the character. (eg, Triumvirate instead of trio). The way Kate talks doesn't ring true. Perhaps the snappy word play would work better if it were in the form of a narrative. The characters never come to life, it's just pages and pages of dialogue. Their great friendship is hard to believe in. They are all so different from eachother and betray eachother over and over again, and yet they predicatably come back to eachother. Why? Despite being attractive, succesful, allegedly witty etc they don't seem to have made any other friends. I only finished this book because I am 32 like the characters, and from Dublin, where the book is set. I normally hold on to all my books with pride, but I knew that I would just throw this one in the bin the minute I finished it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The recommendation by Marian Keyes on the cover attracted me to this book. I won't fall for that again! The only thing this book had in common with a Marian Keyes book was its Dublin setting and the female characters. The three women in this book are intensely irritating and their relationship just not credible. I found them entirely unsympathetic characters, even Eimear who is the one who suffers the most hurt. My advice is don't bother.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book did move me in certain ways as I have shared the same experiences as Gloria (i.e death of a parent and IVF) and I cried her same tears. However, the saga around the three friends is not credible or true to real life. There is no way I could ask my friend for her husband's sperm! I couldn't forgive any of my friends if they had an affair with my husband. Whether this story mirrors real life, I really dont know I hope not! Some of the prose and words were a bit o.t.t. I did need my dictionary. Other than that not a bad read.
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