3,5 sterren.
Mooi verhaal met een emotioneel thema. Echter pakte het verhaal mij niet helemaal, wat ik jammer vond.

My best friend recommended this and I have to thank her for it. A lovely book, I remember crying my eyes out so I often had to put it down, get a grip and then go on. Easily read even though I hadn't read the first 3 books of the Walsh Family series. If you enjoyed books by Ahern or Kinsella then you will love Keyes' style!

One of the reviewers of this book said she classifies books into either literature or crap. I would probably call the second category "fluff" instead. The reviewer also mentions there are levels within the categories. So true. This book is "fluff" but it has some good messages about the difficulty of the grieving process. For about a third of the book, we don't know why Anna Walsh has been injured or why her husband doesn't seem to be responding to her. We experience her crazy family and friends throughout; they are all a bit over the top. Anna goes over the top a few times as well. The author could probably have cut out about 100 pages and still told the story. But, with that said, I may read more of Marian Keyes "fluff" especially in the Walsh family series. Her "fluff" provides some relief from more serious books/literature.

A really good holiday read, with more grit than I had expected.

This was poignant and bittersweet

The second to youngest Walsh girl Anna has always been a free spirit, going her own way. In this story we meet her in a very different way. Struggling to cope with the loss of her husband after a car accident. She is not coming to terms with her grief at first, and Keyes is masterful at allowing the story to unfold, allowing us to see Anna work through all the stages of her grief. very well written

whoops I did it again, read a book half way through a series I didn't know existed... but the best part is that you definitely didn't need any prior knowledge of the Walsh family to enjoy this one!

Anna is in Dublin recuperating. We are given details sparingly about what is wrong with her and how it happened, and we aren't too sure what is going on with her husband Aidan. Is she stalking him? Are they talking? Why is he ignoring her when she gets back to New York?

Split into three parts, Anybody Out There has very distinct parts that make the book easy to read and keeps you interested in the story. There's some great comedic moments throughout and a nice love story at its heart. If you have read the others in the series I'm sure this one fits right in, if not then it's also fine to read by itself.

I really liked this one. At one point I did go on Goodreads to find spoilers because I just had to know a bit about the ending before I decided if I was going to keep reading. But it's not anything bad about the book, it's more that I was looking for light, happy reading and this is *not* that.

It did seem to me like it was two separate books though. The first third was very different from the last two thirds.

But the story is really good. Just be ready for lots of sad.

Best Walsh sister book out there!

The end was a bit ropey

I wanted to read this book as I was gifted the second book which is called Rachel’s Holiday and the sixth book which is called Again, Rachel by Michael Joseph Penguin Publishing. So, me being me, had to read the whole series. So, I went and brought this book after reading the first three books in the series. Again, like the last book this could have been cut down by 200 pages.

This book follows Anna Walsh, the second youngest in the Walsh family. She is officially a wreck. She is physically broken and emotionally shattered. She lies on her parents' sofa in Dublin with only one thing on her mind: getting back to New York. New York means her best friends, The Most Fabulous Job in the World and above all, going back to her husband Aidan. But nothing is simple in Anna’s life. Not only is her return to Manhattan complicated by her physical and emotional scars, but Aidan has simply vanished. Is it time for Anna to move on? Is it even possible for her to move on? A group of misfits, an earth-shattering revelation, two births and one very weird wedding might help Anna find some answers and change her life forever.

As always with this series, I will start with what I liked during this long ass book. Helen’s emails. That's it. She was the only one that was getting me through this book. She was just checking in on her sister and updating her on her chaotic life. Helen didn’t care about the wedding or know about Anna’s grief journey she was just going through life and hiding in bushes. She is the reason this book is not a 2-star book.

I really don’t like how big these books are especially because absolutely nothing happens. This one was just Anna’s thoughts and for the first half of the book you think Aidan is a piece of shit that left her after an accident but no he died, and she just blacked it out. Then the second half of the book is her trying to get in touch with him from the other side and then the last 15 chapters is her being pissed that Aidan has an offspring with an ex BEFORE THEY WERE SLEEPING WITH EACH OTHER. But to her it’s the biggest betrayal that has happened to her in the book which sort of rubbed me the wrong way, I know she was hurt because she wanted to have his children but obviously you don’t think you are going to die when you get in a taxi one day. But to hate the child and the ex because they were trying to tell Aidan’s family that there is a piece of him still alive in this child was not normal.

I really hope that Helen’s story is the end that make this whole series worth it.

hilarious and devastating, best book in the walsh family series hands down

This book is absolutely heartbreaking and amazing. I laughed, I cried and I raged at the world while reading this book. I loved it.