''PS, I Scored The Bridesmaids'' is a 2005 novel by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard, and the fourth in the

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is a satirical fictional Irish character, a wealthy South County Dublin rugby union jock created by journalist Paul Howard. The character first appeared in a January 1998 column in the ''Sunday Tribune'' newspaper and late ...

series. The title refers to the novel '' PS, I Love You'' by Cecelia Ahern.

Plot

Ross' request for Sorcha's hand in marriage is finally accepted. At the wedding comes a shocking revelation: Ross is already a father to a son he knew nothing about.

Reception

The book was a bestseller. In the ''

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'', Celia Keenan commented that "though read chiefly by

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s, tis not of course marketed for them. Parents may not approve, but in the way that these books capture and make fun of some of the more unpleasant aspects of modern urban life their heart is surely in the right place." In the same paper,

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called it a "hilarious saga of the southside Dublin

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" and "an acute insight into issues of pronunciation and class."

References

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