Description:Marian Keyes begins Watermelon
with a rather inauspicious romantic opening when the heroine's husband
leaves her for Denise from the flat downstairs the day their first child
is born. Claire, the deserted wife and mother, returns to her family in
Dublin and, after going through the required stages of "Loss,
Loneliness, Hopelessness and Humiliation", begins to feel much
better--so much better that when James tries to win his way back into
her affections, he gets more than he bargained for.