Stella Sweeney has an average, ordinary life. Recently turned 40, married - if not happily, at least comfortably - with two teenage children and a job working with her sister as a beautician. But when a sudden illness strikes, it marks the start in a chain of events that will dramatically change every aspect of her life. She will go from being somebody average and ordinary to being somebody whose life is not ordinary at all.

When the book opens we learn that Stella is down on her luck, back in Dublin after time in New York and trying to piece herself back together. Then we go back two years, to her life before, and gradually the story of what happened between then and now will be revealed. Marian Keye's trademark style of weaving between the serious and the laugh out loud works well, and Stella's humour is particularly enjoyable as she narrates the story of her illness (which is revealed as excerpts of the book that she later wrote about it).

I really liked the first half of the book, especially as there is some sense of mystery about what is going to happen and what the book's title will relate to. Somewhere around the halfway mark it starts to become apparent how things will unfold and the pace really needed to speed up at this point - which is doesn't, in fact it does quite the opposite. (Until the ending, which is very quick). The lively, humourous book starts to become a slow, predictable story and the engaging Stella starts to become a bit of a whiner. I'd give the first half of the book four stars, but only two stars for the second half - hence averaging out at three.

Thank you Net Galley for the ARC for review.