It’s not”, she said. “It’s quite brutal. I thought it was a serious book. A comic book, but it was still a book about addiction and recovery.” Marian Keyes always writes books that I want to listen to or read in one go. Thankfully they are long enough that it usually takes at least 2 days. As usual, I feel a little bereft when I have finished, but I know I will listen to it again. She's only agreed to her incarceration because she's heard that rehab is wall-to-wall jacuzzis, spa treatments and celebrities going cold turkey - plus it's about time she had a holiday. She's been living it up in New York City, spending her nights talking her way into glamorous parties before heading home in the early hours to her hot boyfriend, Luke.

Marian Keyes (born 10 September 1963) is an Irish author and radio presenter. She is principally known for her popular fiction. Marian Keyes is a brilliant writer. No one is better at making terrifically funny jokes while telling such important, perceptive and agonizing stories of the heart. She is a genius'- Sali Hughes There was silence while I tried to absorb the fact that I was once more without a job. Was God Beadle rerunning old tapes up there? Will make you laugh and make you cry, but will also reveal the truth of who you really are' Louise O'Neill BBC One - imagine..., 2022, Marian Keyes: My (not so) Perfect Life, Meeting 'Mr Right' ". BBC . Retrieved 8 February 2022.a b c Ingle, Róisín (9 September 2017). "Marian Keyes: 'There's an awful lot of riding in my book' ". The Irish Times . Retrieved 20 October 2017. In 2019 the National Library of Ireland announced that the Keyes digital archive for her novel The Mystery of Mercy Close would be acquired by the Library as a pilot project for collecting " born digital" archives. [12] The poem went something like ‘ Mumble, mumble, life . . .’ something indecipherable, ‘ bowl of cherries, mumble, all I get is the pits . . .’ Then – and I vaguely remembered writing this bit – I thought of a really good title for a poem about a shoplifter who had suddenly discovered her conscience. It was called I can’t take anymore.

That I could grudgingly admit by the time I was twenty- seven and had lived away from home for eight years. That he wasn’t the Great Withholder of Money For New Jeans that my sisters and I loved to hate during our teenage years. But despite Dad’s lovely manness he wasn’t big on conversation. Not unless I wanted to talk about golf. So the fact that he had rung me must have meant that I’d really messed up this time. When Marian Keyes announced she had written a sequel to her 1997 smash hit novel, Rachel’s Holiday, social media went into overdrive. Rachel’s Holiday – which sold more than 1.5m copies and spawned generations of devotees to Keyes’s writing – was a cultural phenomenon, following protagonist Rachel Walsh as she struggled to come to terms with drug and alcohol addiction during a spell in a Dublin rehab clinic, the Cloisters. Saying goodbye to fun and freedom will be hard - and losing the man who might just be the love of her life will be even harder. But ultimately this is Rachel’s story, and as it unfolds, Keyes deftly draws parallels between her recovery and that of her patients, forcing her to reassess the progress she’s made and to confront painful truths about herself and her past.As an adult, I now find that I am expected to take care of those people that were supposed to have taken care of me as a child. I'm supposed to be sympathetic to liver failure, emphysemia, financial ruin, and constant RELAPSES and it's just too much.