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Watermelon: A Novel Study Guide & Plot Synopsis

This Study Guide consists of approximately 53 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Watermelon (novel).
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Watermelon: A Novel Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:

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Watermelon by Marian Keyes is a humorous and yet very dramatic story about love. The novel deals with marriage and a myriad of other relationships. The main character in the story is Claire Webster. Her thoughts, desires, and actions propel the story forward from the beginning. However, it is unfortunate circumstances that cause her initial decision, which is to move back home to Dublin to sort her life out.

Watermelon begins with Claire, twenty-nine, in hospital in London, England. She has given birth to a new baby girl. Within a few hours of that birth, her husband James enters the hospital room to inform her that he is leaving her for another woman. He is running out on Claire and their firstborn child for an older married woman who lives in the same apartment complex as they do. Claire makes the decision to head to her ancestral home in Dublin,...
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