At 33%, the characters were all caricatures. Annoying, unlikeable caricatures. I don't need to like characters in a book I'm reading, but I would like to at least feel interested in someone. Reading a novel by Marian Keyes is like sitting at the kitchen table with your nicest, most confiding friend' Daily Mail

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. Publishes fiction debut The Thursday Murder Club, currently being adapted into a film by Steven Spielberg’s production company, Amblin Entertainment. First of all, there's the protagonist, Maggie Walsh. She's the third of Marian Keyes's most famous literary characters, the Walsh sisters, to be the protagonist of her own novel. The first-person narration is pretty much identical, style-wise, to the narration from the earlier two books about the Walsh sisters Claire and Rachel, even though these are supposed to be three different characters. At this point, it's starting to feel like Marian Keyes only has one voice that she can write in – a zany, oh-I'm-such-a-silly-and-confused-woman voice – and gives that voice to every one of her characters.

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Claire and her struggels were so human it hurt. She was far from being perfect. I would have never behaved like her, but I am sure there are many women who were/are like her. And this story could be wise and funny guide for them. a b Hunt, Elle (12 March 2017). "Novelist Marian Keyes reveals fight against constant 'suicidal impulses' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 September 2017. They end up making love, and right afterwards both of them realize that they're not suited for each other, Maggie realizing she's straight after all just like she thought before meeting Laura, and Laura deciding that Maggie was just a rebound thing and not really Laura's type.

Anyway I loved working there. It thrilled me to the middle­ class marrow of my bourgeois bones. It seemed so decadent and exciting to wake at one in the afternoon every day and go to work at six and finish at twelve and get drunk with the barmen and busboys afterwards. Like some fifties science-fiction film, where the hero’s girl­ friend’s body is taken over by an alien -it still looks like her on the outside (pink angora sweater, sweet little handbag, bra so pointy it would take the eye out of a spider, etc.) – but her eyes have changed. Creates BBC game show Pointless,in which contestants attempt to find obscure answers to general knowledge questions. Co-presents it with university friend Alexander Armstrong (above). Writes a number of quiz books between 2012 and 2019.

Marian Keyes accepting the Sainsbury popular fiction award at the Galaxy British book awards 2007. Photograph: Joel Ryan/PA THE AUTHOR: Marian Keyes (born 10 September 1963) is an Irish novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for her work in women's literature. She is an Irish Book Awards winner. Over 22 million copies of her novels have been sold worldwide and her books have been translated into 32 languages. She became known worldwide for Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, and This Charming Man, with themes including domestic violence and alcoholism. And he would help me to count my tips. And give me great advice about what to invest them in. Government bonds and that kind of thing. In 2021 and 2022, Keyes joined Tara Flynn in a series for BBC Radio 4 called 'Now You're Asking', in which they discussed problems sent in by listeners (they called them 'askers').