MRS WHIPPY (Cecelia Ahern) - November 7/09

This super-short story - 75 pages - about a put-upon housewife who finally decides to stand up for herself is incredibly entertaining and surprisingly vivid, as Ahern effectively establishes a fully fleshed-out central characters and tells a compelling tale using very few pages. A true winner. (And a reminder that Ahern, the author of the engrossing P.S. I Love You, is a genuinely talented writer whose books I seem to have overlooked. I'll be correcting that mistake shortly.) ***1/2 out of ****