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The Brightest Star in the Sky (Hardcover)

by Marian Keyes (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 624 pages
  • Publisher: Michael Joseph (26 Oct 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0718149866
  • ISBN-13: 978-0718149864
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 4.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (83 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 553 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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At 66, Star Street in Dublin, someone is watching over the lives of the people living in its flats. But no one is aware of it – yet... One of them is ready to take the plunge and fall in love; another is torn between two very different lovers. For some, secrets they want to stay buried will come to light and for others, the unveiling of those secrets will have tragic consequences. Fate is on its way to Star Street, bringing with it love and tragedy, friendship and heartbreak, and the power to change their lives in the most unexpected of ways…

About the Author

Marian Keyes' international bestselling novels include RachelÂ’s Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other Side of the Story, Anybody Out There and This Charming Man. Two collections of her journalism, Under the Duvet and Further Under the Duvet, are also available from Penguin. Marian lives in Dublin with her husband.
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148 of 173 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Marian's Best!, 1 Oct 2009
By Sharon L. Ward "sharon" (Queensland, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brightest Star in the Sky (Paperback)
This book came out in Australia last week and I bought it the day it hit the shelves. I love all of Marian's books and I believe this is her BEST EVER. It kept me guessing till the end. It made me laugh. It made me cry. It is full of twists and turns and is absolutely brilliant. ELEVEN OUT OF TEN!!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this book!, 11 Dec 2009
By R. Vanessa "attica" (France) - See all my reviews
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I'm an all time fan of Marian Keyes and I've read and bought all her books. This book is so disappointing. She has lost her touch : you just can't get into the story because she has lost the gift to immerse you immediately in the book and characters. Why? Because, she adopted here a supposed ingenous device to get into the people's thoughts (she writes from a "star" point of view - a supernatural thing which can feel vibrations people send and read their thoughts) and this just kills the book. It gives it an artificial-intellectual-built up look.
The characters are just caricatures, they just don't seem real. So if you add sketchy characters to a story told by a supernatural outsider which prevents you from being able to live the story (you are told everything about everybody instead of feeling it as the story unfolds), you just get a very bad book.
This book just seems to have been written too fast.
Sorry for all the other Keyes fans for "the brightest star in the sky" is definitely not written by the same Marian than the one who wrote "Rachel's Holiday", "Last chance saloon", "Lucy Sullivan is getting married", "Sushi for beginners",or "Anybody out there".

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27 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful - but not her best, 27 Oct 2009
By theclosedcircle (Suffolk, England) - See all my reviews
My copy arrived from Amazon this morning. I picked it up at 4 o clock and just put it down, finished, at 11.30. You have to hand it to Marian Keyes - she writes books you really can't bear to put down until you have finished reading them, and 'The Brightest Star in the Sky' proved to be no exception. The concept behind the narrative voice is warm, touching and original.

However, I have to be honest and say something didn't quite gel for me. I didn't laugh out loud or cry, something which invariably accompanies reading Keyes. Don't get me wrong - there are jokes, and emotional moments... I don't know, something was just a bit lacking. I wanted to know what happened to the characters, but I didn't fall in love with them.

If you're are a fan, you can't fail to enjoy this. It just might not be your favourite Keyes novel. If you've never read Keyes before, you'd do as well to read this as anything else she has written... even Keyes's poorer efforts are a thousand times superior to most other women's fiction out there.

A note: I have a bad habit of reading the author's acknowledgments first. In 'The Brightest Star in the Sky', they have been put at the back of the book for a reason - avoid them unless you want spoilers!
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5.0 out of 5 stars I Loved It
I have read most of Marian Keyes books and this is my favourite so far. I loved the way it was written and was surprised to read reviews which were disappointed with the style... Read more
Published 13 hours ago by Jenny

4.0 out of 5 stars The Brightest Star in the Sky
This book was so different to anything Marian has written before and has quite a feel of Cecelia Aherne about it. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Clare

1.0 out of 5 stars not my type book
I wish I had read the reviews before trying to struggle through the first few pages and wondering if I was really reading a Marian Keyes book. Read more
Published 11 days ago by S. WHITING

5.0 out of 5 stars The Brightest Star In The Sky
I`ve probably read everything Marian has ever written, not just the books, and I`m never disappointed, neither this time. Read more
Published 12 days ago by Renate

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it, love it, love it
The usual brilliance from Marian Keyes. I couldnt put this down, the charactors were brilliant as usual and you feel like you really get to know them. Read more
Published 12 days ago by Mrs. Dawn S. Geddes

1.0 out of 5 stars Really disappointed
Like many others I have loved Marian Keyes since I first read Watermelon and Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married - both of which made me laugh out load and I loved her writing style... Read more
Published 13 days ago by Sally Bird

2.0 out of 5 stars Struggled through to the end
I found myself constantly flicking the pages forward while reading this book wondering how close I was getting to the end and whether it was worth investing those precious hours... Read more
Published 18 days ago by J. Heiser

2.0 out of 5 stars I wanted to love it but.......
I didn't think it compared to previous books. The whole tone of the book was much darker than I was expecting and I didn't really care about any of the characters. Read more
Published 19 days ago by B. Ailey

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok
This was an unusual book and I really got to know the characters, however there was something lacking. I was a bit disappointed as it isn't as good as her other books.
Published 20 days ago by S. A. Buxton

3.0 out of 5 stars Still a good read, slightly disappointed.
I am a huge Marion Keyes fan and always look forward to her latest book. I enjoyed this book but not as much as her previous novels. Read more
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