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FYI: Touchstone Pictures has optioned the rights to Keyes's novel, Rachel's Holiday. Throughout, the effervescent narrative is fueled by witty repartee though its outcome may be predictable, its sentiments are heartfelt, and its progress is sprightly. Surprisingly for a comic novel, the book also takes on the serious themes of clinical depression and alcoholism, handling both with sensitivity and humor. Lucy ends up meeting Gus, a complete loser, at a party. Lucy doesn't believe it at first, but the psychics predictions with regards to her friends (who got their own psychic readings) started to come true.

As Lucy says, "I was still at that stage in my life when I thought that weekdays were for recovering from the weekend," but more often than not, her weekdays are as full of exhausting fun as her weekends. The book starts off with a psychic's prediction that the boyfriendless Lucy is getting married in the next 18 months. The attendant mayhem includes drunken meals at ethnic restaurants, flamenco dancing accidents, blind dates gone wrong and many delicious confessions and revelations. The identity of the lucky man will come as no surprise, though Lucy remains oblivious until the very end, but there are many eligible bachelors on the scene, among them Gus, Lucy's sexy but unreliable new lover Daniel, her oldest friend Chuck, a handsome American and Adrian, the video shop man. When the fortune-teller's prophecies for the other three come true in peculiar ways, even disbelieving, boyfriendless Lucy begins to suspect that, somehow, wedding bells will ring for her. But when she visits a fortune-teller with a trio of mismatched friends, a marriage is predicted for the near future. A 26-year-old Londoner, Lucy is the kind of woman who thinks that any man who's decent to her must be Mr. (after Watermelon), fancies herself simultaneously miserable and happy.

Lucy Sullivan, the eponymous heroine of Irish writer Keyes's second offbeat romantic comedy to be published in the U.S.