Last chance saloon - Marian Keyes

TAKE THREE VERY DIFFERENT PEOPLE…

Katherine, a sleek millennium woman with a powder-blue Karmann Ghia and a past buried like nuclear waste. She hasn’t cried since 1988, she simply hasn’t had time.

Fintan, who has the biggest Clinique collection in Notting Hill – he could open his bathroom to the public. He’s in love with Sandro, the Italian pony – at five foot four, too short to be a stallion.

Tara, with a PhD in bad choices. Clothes, cars, men. Especially men. The current one carries his change in a little old ladies’ purse. But when you’re in the Last Chance Saloon you take what you can get.

…BEST FRIENDS SINCE THE DAYS OF PINK STRETCH JEANS…

Now they’re adults – at least allegedly. But when fate steps in, first as an illness, then in the shape of an amoral, dangerous, out-of-work actor called Lorcan Larkin, all their lives are changed in wholly unexpected ways…