--- product_id: 11546115 title: "Anybody Out There?: A Novel" price: "฿1235" currency: THB in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.th/products/11546115-anybody-out-there-a-novel store_origin: TH region: Thailand --- # Anybody Out There?: A Novel **Price:** ฿1235 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Anybody Out There?: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** ฿1235 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.th](https://www.desertcart.co.th/products/11546115-anybody-out-there-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Bestselling author Marian Keyes has delighted readers with the lives, loves, and foibles of the irrepressible Walsh sisters and their eccentric mammy. In this Life in the Big Apple is perfect for Anna. She has the best job in the world, a lovely apartment, and great friends. Then one morning, she wakes up in her mammy's house in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, hands smashed up, and no memory at all of what happened. As soon as she's able, Anna's flying back to Manhattan, mystified but determined to find out how her life turned upside down. 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. Marrying life's darker bits with wild humor and tender wit, Anybody Out There? is a strange and wonderfully charming look at love here and ever after. Review: If you're looking for a book to enrapture you, look no further. - Marian Keyes is back as my favorite author, right up there with Nick Hornby. I have read everything she's ever written. Her last few books left me feeling less than than elated but I'm loyal. And she's back. Making my life easier to handle because I have the worlds she creates to immerse myself in. Her characters become my best friends. I find myself talking about them during dinner with my husband. The minute I open her books I am swept away to another world, where I'm a fly on the wall, where I identify with the depth of feeling and vulnerability of her characters, and where I don't feel like such an odd ball in the world. We're all odd balls. It's what keeps life interesting. But her books do so much more for me than entertain. They enlighten me, they make me think about the circumstances of people, and they make me feel a plethora of emotions. In the words of e.e. cummings, she opens me, pedal by pedal. When I closed this book I just sat there staring at it, carressing the cover, thanking it for giving to me without asking for anything in return (except the cover price, which was worth every penny. I have a Marian Keyes library.) Don't miss out on this gem! Review: Best of the Walsh lot but not one of her best novels - The fourth of Marian Keyes' Walsh family novels features Anna,transformed from the dippy hippie of earlier novels into a hard-charging PR woman in NYC. But as the novel opens she's back in the family home in Dublin, recovering from serious injuries from an accident that has left her face scarred and her husband absent. In Keyes' signature style for Walsh family novels, in the first part of the book she twins the then story of Anna meeting and marrying her husband, Aidan, with the now story of her recovery in Ireland and return to a demanding workplace in New York promoting a hot line of cosmetics. Those stories converge to reveal what's happened to Aidan. SPOILER ALERT By the time Keyes reveals that Aidan died in the accident that injured Anna, the revelation isn't much of a surprise, but plucky Anna has captured the reader's sympathy. The plaintiveness of her frequent email messages to Aidan and calls to his cell phone underscore the terrible absence she feels after returning to the apartment they shared, so it was easy for me to understand why, even after facing the fact that he's dead, she keeps wondering, "Where is he?" I sympathized with her turn to psychics in an effort to find relief and Anna's furtive planning to escape the attentions of family and friends who wanted to keep her busy in hopes of getting her back to normal as quickly as possible. I found Anna's year of magical thinking as realistic as that depicted by Joan Didion in her memoir with that title. Another aspect of the novel that worked for me was the PR/fashionista background with the T-Rex of a demanding boss, the strategizing to land coverage in coveted magazines, the over-the-top outfits required to fit the brand image, etc. In this novel Keyes leaves behind the breeziness of pure chick-lit by giving her sympathetic character a very dark problem to work through and significant challenges in her work life, all of which works very well. I can only conclude that it was at her editor's insistence that readers would want some lighter fare in this story that Keyes added the subplot told in emails from Dublin of Anna's PI sister, Helen, and her wacky case involving the marital woes of an Irish crime boss, which was an irritating distraction to this reader. Keyes has transformed herself into a much more serious novelist than many of her fans from her chick-lit days probably want, and in Anybody Out There, she's trying to have it both ways. In This Charming Man, The Other Side of the Story, and The Brightest Star In The Sky, Keyes tells her story from the viewpoints of multiple characters and deals with a range of serious social ills, and those novels are by far her best. In the Walsh family novels, she's hampered by the gimmick itself and the expectations of a breezy romp. 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. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,252,022 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #18,404 in Contemporary Women Fiction #18,925 in Literary Fiction (Books) #20,692 in Contemporary Romance (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 4,686 Reviews | ## Images ![Anybody Out There?: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71jTbbJaRxL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you're looking for a book to enrapture you, look no further. *by J***S on October 20, 2006* Marian Keyes is back as my favorite author, right up there with Nick Hornby. I have read everything she's ever written. Her last few books left me feeling less than than elated but I'm loyal. And she's back. Making my life easier to handle because I have the worlds she creates to immerse myself in. Her characters become my best friends. I find myself talking about them during dinner with my husband. The minute I open her books I am swept away to another world, where I'm a fly on the wall, where I identify with the depth of feeling and vulnerability of her characters, and where I don't feel like such an odd ball in the world. We're all odd balls. It's what keeps life interesting. But her books do so much more for me than entertain. They enlighten me, they make me think about the circumstances of people, and they make me feel a plethora of emotions. In the words of e.e. cummings, she opens me, pedal by pedal. When I closed this book I just sat there staring at it, carressing the cover, thanking it for giving to me without asking for anything in return (except the cover price, which was worth every penny. I have a Marian Keyes library.) Don't miss out on this gem! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best of the Walsh lot but not one of her best novels *by B***D on April 8, 2013* The fourth of Marian Keyes' Walsh family novels features Anna,transformed from the dippy hippie of earlier novels into a hard-charging PR woman in NYC. But as the novel opens she's back in the family home in Dublin, recovering from serious injuries from an accident that has left her face scarred and her husband absent. In Keyes' signature style for Walsh family novels, in the first part of the book she twins the then story of Anna meeting and marrying her husband, Aidan, with the now story of her recovery in Ireland and return to a demanding workplace in New York promoting a hot line of cosmetics. Those stories converge to reveal what's happened to Aidan. SPOILER ALERT By the time Keyes reveals that Aidan died in the accident that injured Anna, the revelation isn't much of a surprise, but plucky Anna has captured the reader's sympathy. The plaintiveness of her frequent email messages to Aidan and calls to his cell phone underscore the terrible absence she feels after returning to the apartment they shared, so it was easy for me to understand why, even after facing the fact that he's dead, she keeps wondering, "Where is he?" I sympathized with her turn to psychics in an effort to find relief and Anna's furtive planning to escape the attentions of family and friends who wanted to keep her busy in hopes of getting her back to normal as quickly as possible. I found Anna's year of magical thinking as realistic as that depicted by Joan Didion in her memoir with that title. Another aspect of the novel that worked for me was the PR/fashionista background with the T-Rex of a demanding boss, the strategizing to land coverage in coveted magazines, the over-the-top outfits required to fit the brand image, etc. In this novel Keyes leaves behind the breeziness of pure chick-lit by giving her sympathetic character a very dark problem to work through and significant challenges in her work life, all of which works very well. I can only conclude that it was at her editor's insistence that readers would want some lighter fare in this story that Keyes added the subplot told in emails from Dublin of Anna's PI sister, Helen, and her wacky case involving the marital woes of an Irish crime boss, which was an irritating distraction to this reader. Keyes has transformed herself into a much more serious novelist than many of her fans from her chick-lit days probably want, and in Anybody Out There, she's trying to have it both ways. In This Charming Man, The Other Side of the Story, and The Brightest Star In The Sky, Keyes tells her story from the viewpoints of multiple characters and deals with a range of serious social ills, and those novels are by far her best. In the Walsh family novels, she's hampered by the gimmick itself and the expectations of a breezy romp. 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. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Loved This Book!! *by L***2 on July 4, 2019* Marian Keyes writes chic lit, a genre I typically hate. However, I've been a Keyes fan for many years. She has a wicked humor and makes me laugh out loud. This is her best novel, by far. It's got so much more to it. It's also my daughter's favorite. We can agree on this book although we don't like the same books ever. We've each read it more than once. It's touching and funny, and it's certainly not your typical light beach read. It's the best in the Walsh sisters series. Rachel's Holiday is good too, but this one with Anna is superior. I laughed and cried at the same time. Unusual for a novel to do that for me. Loved it and will read again one day soon! --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.th/products/11546115-anybody-out-there-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.co.th/products/11546115-anybody-out-there-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart Thailand* *Store origin: TH* *Last updated: 2026-05-16*