Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling: (The Aisling Series)

Get ready for the 'Irish Bridget Jones'. This is the funniest book you will read all year. Aisling is twenty-eight and still lives in Ballygobbard with her parents. She's always up for drinking Maguire's bar dry (using a coaster, she's not an animal). She thinks whoever invented the shirt/jumper combination - the schumper - is a fashion genius. She'd rather die than miss a free hotel breakfast. In short, she's a complete Aisling. Her boyfriend John is a bit of a ride, but after seven years Aisling wants more than two nights a week at his place. She wants to be able to answer the question 'When's it your turn?' by flashing a ring on her finger. Until a week in Tenerife with John ends in a break-up, and she surprises everyone by deciding it's time to move on, and introduce the Big Smoke of Dublin to the ways of the complete Aisling . . .

About the Author :
Emer McLysaght is the former editor of The Daily Edge and has worked extensively in journalism and radio. Sarah Breen is a journalist whose work has appeared in Stellar, Image, U, the Irish Independent and The Gloss.

Review :
Her voice leaps off the page . . . it's this depth of character and eye for detail that makes comparisons with Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones series spot-on This hilarious and heart-warming book had us alternately laughing and crying. The year's funniest book to date Brilliant. You laugh, you cry, you miss home, and you can't put it down It's a novel that simply roars along, full of proper LOL moments as well as real poignancy. Aisling is the perfect heroine for our chaotic times. This hilarious Irish bestseller, which came to life via a viral Facebook page, follows country girl Aisling as she moves from her hometown to big city living in Dublin. She's sweet, a little clueless but a force to be reckoned with You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to invest in a shumper (though not for going OUT OUT) and as soon as you've finished it, you'll want to reread this hilarious novel, which will also get you in the right feels Oh lads! This book! There aren't enough words for how much I love it. It's feicin' HILAIRE and very touching Funny and touching . . . we fell in love with the heroine of Oh My God What a Complete Aisling, about a small-town girl in Dublin This quickfire tragi-comedy is bursting with clever one-liners and acute observations Both Aisling and the novel have a great big thumping heart A runaway success . . . it's an uplifting romcom that combines elements of Bridget Jones and Four Weddings with Father Ted My unofficial autobiography Aisling is an absolute gem of a character and this book is a breath of fresh air With witty dialogue, sharp observations and piles of humour, this is a riot of a read, but with plenty of depth, too - we found ourselves choking up as well as, erm . . . peeing with laughter Excellent craic that'll have you shedding a tear as well as laughing your socks off It's sweet and it's funny and it's moving and it's perfect An utter ray of sunshine Hilarious . . . A well-crafted tale with warmth and emotion This is a tale of a young woman from the Irish countryside and her travails in Dublin will have you laughing Country bumpkin Aisling carries this perky, big-hearted romcom. Powered by cracking one-liners, it'll have you chortling through any amount of airport delays I've spent the last forty-eight hours laughing my head off at this novel . . . but it's not just comic, there's a real heart to it and it's often very moving This book is the funniest, warmest, loveliest book I've read in so long. The characters are so hilarious and relatable, I laughed non-stop and genuinely didn't want it to end One of my fave novels of 2017. It really does remind me of Marian Keyes You'll laugh. A lot. But you should also get the tissues ready If I had a book of the year award for 2017 it would go to Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling . . . It left me giggling at some pages and sobbing at others A book so good, so funny, that it made two strangers talk to each other on a London tube train One of the funniest books I've read in twenty years I had expected this delightful book to be funny and it really, really is. But I never expected the feels. I didn't expect big fat tears to roll down my country face A loving ode to a certain type of Irish woman that's hilarious, comforting and warm. A hot water bottle of a book, if you will Sweet, charming, funny and poignant Every Irish person knows an Aisling, and there is nothing more delightful than recognising something familiar being projected back at you through a novel. While the books are both extremely funny, they also reflect a period in Irish culture and centre around a heartwarming story for Aisilings of the ages