Until he learns that without your health, you've got nothing. Katherine, on the other hand, has a neatness fetish that won't let anyone too close to mess up her life. But what have they to show for a decade of hedonism? Sure, Tara's got a boyfriend - but only because she's terrified of spending five minutes alone. Now in their early thirties, they've been living it up in London for ten years. ' Tara, Katherine and Fintan have been best friends since they were teenagers. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's. bestselling author of Grown Ups 'Moving, relatable and infinitely tender' INDEPENDENT 'Plenty of heart, lots of laughs, and a fantastic twist in the tail' COSMOPOLITAN _ 'Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. At almost 600 pages, settle down for a Saturday afternoon and don't expect to be getting up again until Sunday.*** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022*** Discover the gorgeously funny and heartwarming bestseller about final chances from the No 1. It's addictive-reading The Last Chance Saloon is like watching the omnibus edition of Sunset Beach you know the acting is awful and the same scenes keep on repeating themselves but you can't help being hooked and feeling sated afterwards.

'I'm going to puke', Fintan interrupted, urgently.' Those who can resist the urge to follow Fintan's lead on the umpteenth rendition of this particular complaint will enjoy the book. And it's not something I'm proud of' she added quickly. 'But what would become of me without Thomas? I'd never get anyone else and I hate not having a man. It was like being told to jump off a cliff. 'For the first time Tara visualised it and she contracted with fear. Throughout, Tara bores us with her lament that she is at the last chance saloon, meaning that if she ends her current relationship at 31, she's on the shelf for life. Marian Keyes deliberately deploys stereotypical characters and situations, then attempts to subvert the stereotypes, though perhaps in rather obvious ways. Meet Tara, the rapidly expanding food-loving shopaholic Katherine, the neat, male-ego-destroying singleton Fintan, the fashion-conscious lovely, and Lorcan, the gorgeous but rotten redheaded womaniser.

Author of the hugely popular Rachel's Holiday and Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Marian Keyes is back swinging the doors of heartache and hilarity with Last Chance Saloon.

Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes