Three Wise Men

Description

A warm, witty and wise novel about love, friendship and being in your thirties. Gloria, Eimear and Kate have been friends since they were a trio of six-year-olds cast as the Three Wise Men in the nativity play. Twenty-five years on, they've left Omagh for Dublin and grown up to be Three Unwise Women, all too prone to misuse the gifts they've been given. Eimear's beauty captivates men but robs her of independence. Kate's dazzling wit blinds her to the consequences of betraying a friend. And Gloria's urge to nurture, thwarted by infertility, threatens to destroy everything she holds dear. Aided and abetted in their misdeeds by the irresistible Jack, philandering poet and seducer extraordinaire, the troika find themselves putting their friendship to a test from which it may never recover. To this black comedy Martina Devlin brings a delightful lightness of touch, a turn of phrase to treasure, and three characters to take to your heart.

Irish writer Martina Devlin was born in Omagh, Co Tyrone and now lives in Dublin where she works as a reporter and columnist with the Irish Independent. Her first novel, Three Wise Men, was an instant bestseller in Ireland and her second, Be Careful What You Wish For, will be published in October 2001. In 1996 she won a Hennessy Cognac Literary Award for her short story, Confessions.

'A real, believable, compelling read. This is my Ireland, these are the women I know. Martina Devlin draws friendship and love, with its attendant comfort and pains, with unflinching honesty. And into the bargain, it's funny!... I'm in awe.' Marian Keyes