Walsh Family · Book 1
Watermelon
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 614
- ISBN-13
- 9780060090364
- Type
- novel
About this book
Watermelon launches Marian Keyes' Walsh Family series in 1995, opening with Claire Walsh abandoned by her husband on the very day she gives birth. At 614 pages, it introduces the boisterous Dublin household -- overbearing Mammy, five very different sisters -- that anchors the whole series.
Its place in Walsh Family
Watermelon is book 1 in the Walsh Family series. It is followed by Rachel's Holiday. See the full Walsh Family reading order.
The Walsh family are a boisterous, tightly-bonded Dublin household -- overbearing Mammy, quietly long-suffering Dad, and five very different adult daughters (Claire, Rachel, Maggie, Anna and Helen) -- who anchor Marian Keyes' best-loved and longest-running series. Each of the first five novels follows a different sister through a defining personal crisis, using comedy as a route into genuinely difficult material: Watermelon (1995) opens the series with Claire, abandoned by her husband on the day she gives birth…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060090364
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780380796090