Anybody Out There?

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As soon as she's able, Anna's flying back to Manhattan, mystified but determined to find out how her life turned upside down. Over 400 pages of a widow’s emotional recovery would be hard-going if not for Keyes’s humor and grand cast of characters with their own quirky subplots.

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The book opens with Anna recuperating at her parents' home in Ireland after suffering from a serious accident in which she has little recollection. Couldn't bear to ask an old best friend if she'd ever forgiven you for absconding with her boyfriend?

Except Dad, and only because he was the one who had to sweep up all the broken glass and Sellotape a plastic bag over the hole until the glazier arrived, approximately six months later. To me, Anybody Out There is the best of that lot, but now that she's published a novel focusing on the fifth and final Walsh sister -- The Mystery of Mercy Close, featuring Helen -- I hope she'll retire the Walsh family and focus her energy on what she does best. As her past slowly begins coming back to her, she sets out on an outrageous quest--involving lilies, psychics, mediums, and anyone who can point her in the right direction.

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It had been given to her by the missing woman’s sister and all Mum got for her trouble was a badly mashed shoulder. Persons unknown threw a stone through the television-room window during an episode of EastEnders – probably just one of the local teenagers expressing his feelings of youthful alienation, but the next thing, Mum was on the phone to everyone, saying that someone was trying to ‘put the frighteners’ on Helen, that they ‘wanted her off the case’. This was the first book I had read that featured the Walsh family (I thought all MK books were stand alone) and I am so glad there are others to read and look forward to.I liked the pace of the book, and the subject matter is well-split between the comic and the tragic too. Keyes’s proven formula for success—a chatty, engaging heroine, a bawdy sense of humor, an unhappy turn of events—works again in her eighth novel ( The Other Side of the Story, 2004, etc.