We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. Emer said: “One thing that often happens is we get pictures of people reading it by the pool in places like Tenerife and Leo Varadkar in Vegas. so I did like it and yes it was most definitely hilarious at times but it was also just a little too much. The characters are appealing and so entertaining, but the star of the show is, without a doubt, Aisling. A friend from home happened to be on holiday in Las Vegas and he sent me a text and said ‘you’ll never believe it, Leo Varadkar is by the pool and guess what he is reading’ and this was a good few years back and he was reading the first book.

Aisling has been compared variously from Bridget Jones to Adrian Mole and a host of Marian Keyes characters in between and I'm thrilled with each and every one of those comparisons. This is an edited extract from Oh My God, What A Complete Aisling: The Novel by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen, published by Gill Books ( €14. Once we were in Ireland, we would then be paraded around to visit the "rellies" in our Sunday Best, where our cheeks would be squeezed, we would be told how much we'd grown, how much we look like our mother/father/sister/cousin/aunt* and then as we left, a secret handshake would reveal either a 50p coin, or if you were really lucky, a folded up Irish pound note. Doch während alle Anderen um sie herum genau das zu kriegen scheinen und sie in ihren Lebensplänen überholen, lebt sie mit 28 Jahren noch bei ihren Eltern. I let the words trail off and look down at my plate full of croissant crumbs so he won’t see my eyes fill with tears.Aisling passt da augenscheinlich überhaupt nicht hinein aber die Mädels sind sehr umgänglich und machen sich nur gelegentlich über ihre neue Mitbewohnerin lustig. But with glamorous new flatmates, a scandal at work and a weird love square, Aisling has no idea what's about to hit her . Some parts are ridiculous but that's all part of the fun, and there are some much more serious moments too - it's not all light and fluffy. Each team member will get a Notions tote bag and Complete Aisling t-shirt on the night, as well as complimentary West Coast Cooler (go EASY on them now girls) and some delicious nibbles (feck the Points!

It takes a while to truly figure out the narrative style, and rhythm of the story, but once you’re adjusted the characters really take shape, and the whole thing becomes an enjoyable read.As children, the Hillman car would be packed to the rafters(imagine cars have rafters for the sake of my writing! To celebrate the launch of Oh My God What A Complete Aisling, The Novel, authors Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen, along with publishers Gill Books are hosting a table quiz (what else? Fun, entertaining and, at times, a bit emotional, Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling is a fast-paced, funny read which I really didn't want to put down! This is not a genre I usually read and, despite being Irish and having lived all my life in Ireland, the drinking, social, partying culture has never been part of my personal experience.

Ich fand es stellenweise zu übertrieben, zu gewollt lustig und Aisling als Protagonistin viel zu weltfremd und naiv. You’d be a child bride by today’s standards,” he adds with a hollow laugh, spraying toast crumbs onto the white linen tablecloth. It started when two college friends (from Carlow and Kildare) decided to share their observations about a certain type of Irish country girl with a wider audience. She loves working in the Big Smoke – very sophisticated altogether – but she loves going Down Home every weekend even more. She can't bear the idea of a buffet breakfast going uneaten, even if it means going to breakfast two minutes after waking up.It all started when Emer McLysaght and I moved in together, having met at Ballyfermot College of Further Education where we forged a firm friendship and studied media on the side. Wer aber auf der Suche nach einer leicht überspitzten, trotzdem humoristischen Geschichte über den Druck der Gesellschaft, die Entwicklung des eigenen Charakters, verrückte Freundschaften und Liebesverwirrungen sowie Familiensorgen ist, der wird mit Aisling denke ich ein paar angenehme Lesestunden verbringen können. Ich kann und will mir beim besten Willen nicht vorstellen müssen, dass es Menschen gibt, die sich so verhalten wie Aisling.

The humour and comic touches in the story are contagious and had me laughing, this novel is really good craic! More chick-lit than I usually read, I adored the sharply observed characters and the whimsy in this. I found myself getting quite emotional in some of the lifelike, sobering scenes but it wasn't long before I found myself laughing again.Feeling her life needs a radical overhaul, she moves in with HR work colleague, Sadhbh and her intriguing flatmate, Elaine, in a plush penthouse in Dublin. Aisling is a small-town country girl who loves her Daddy, a good hotel breakfast, jeans and a nice top, and her boyfriend of seven years, John. Die Gesellschaft, die Familie, die Freunde, sie alle dürfen sich in eine solche Sache nicht einmischen und man sollte sich dem auch nicht beugen, nur weil alle das so machen. I bought this book for a friend for her birthday and she was lost with a lot of the Irish sayings and so came to me for a translation, we both cried laughing when I read the story to her it was a godsend and a real salve to actually cry laughing.