Sappy rehash of some very familiar plots.įour men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions-as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer-and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives. Get a Job or Keep On Shopping? Fall in Love with A Handsome Man or Start An Exciting Career at a Fashion Magazine? Don’t worry! The ending is happy! There are other Big Questions, though, and our Holly searches for Answers. Of course, he’d know if she cheated at the happy little game, so she doesn’t.

Holly knows he’s right there, she can feel his spectral presence, she even talks to him. And each time she opens an envelope, it seems that Gerry is just playing a happy little game with her, even though they live in two different worlds. Reassured that Gerry is looking down from heaven, she vows to follow his lighthearted, loving advice and buy that new lamp, sing in a karaoke bar, etc. Maybe now it’s time to stop crying! And as she opens the first envelope to read Gerry’s letter, she realizes that tomorrow is a new day. They spend a lot of time “laughing and joking about old times, then crying, followed by some more laughing, then more crying again.” Though still consumed by grief, Holly can see that she has dark circles under her eyes, her hair is a fright, and her lips are chewed and chapped.

Tra-la-la, come skip down the streets of Dublin with Holly and her chum Sharon. Yes, the posthumous postings are meant to help Holly heal, to laugh again and love again, and to remind her always to walk on the sunny side of the street, cherishing her memories and the happy future ahead (come to think of it, only a 22-year-old could write a book like this). Fluffy romance from the cute-as-a-button daughter of Ireland’s Prime Minister.Īt the tender age of 22, film student Ahern pens her very first novel! The heroine: a young widow, Holly Kennedy, who discovers a batch of letters from her late husband Gerry, one for every month of the year.

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