This book was not to my liking at all. I have read all Marian Keyes' books and enjoyed them immensely, as the serious parts were always peppered with good laugh-out-loud humour. I hated the staccato style in which Lola's story is written and lost interest when it went on and on. I skipped through a lot of it. The separation of the characters doesn't work for me at all, as it is difficult to knit them together eventually. However, I decided to persevere (as I said before I am a faithful follower) so I read the book half way through and decided at that point that I wasn't bothered continuing with it any more. I can't remember putting a book down at that stage before. Had I not been looking forward to another tried and trusted Keyes book I probably would have taken a different approach, but it just didn't appeal. Miss the old style Keyes :(