She includes among her hobbies reading, movies, shoes, handbags and feminism.
She was born in Limerick in 1963, and brought up in Cavan, Cork, Galway and Dublin she spent her twenties in London, but is now living in Dún Laoghaire with her husband Tony. She has published three collections of her journalism, titled Under the Duvet and Further Under the Duvet, now collected in one volume under the title Under the Duvet: Deluxe Edition, and donated all royalties from Irish sales to the Simon Community, a charity which works with the homeless. In 2016 Marian published a new collection of essays, Making It Up As I Go Along. Eventually she found that baking cakes helped her survive and in 2012, she published Saved by Cake, which combines recipes with autobiography.Īs well as novels she has written short stories, and articles for various magazines and other publications. In 2009, Marian experienced the start of a major depressive episode, and had to stop any work. The books deal variously with modern ailments, including addiction, depression, domestic violence, the glass ceiling and serious illness, but always written with compassion, humour and hope. Marian’s latest book Grown Ups is publishing in hardback and eBook in February 2020.
This Charming Man won the Irish Book Award for popular fiction. Anybody Out There won the British Book Awards award for popular fiction and the inaugural Melissa Nathan Prize for Comedy Romance. Her books have all been bestsellers around the world, with a total of over 30 million of her books sold to date in 33 languages. To date, the woman who said she’d never write a novel has published 13 of them: Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel’s Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other Side of the Story, Anybody Out There, This Charming Man, The Brightest Star in the Sky, The Mystery of Mercy Close, The Woman Who Stole My Life, and The Break. The publishers replied, asking to see the novel, and once her panic had subsided, she began to write what subsequently became her first book Watermelon, published in 1995. Instead she studied law and accountancy and finally started writing short stories in 1993 “out of the blue.” Though she had no intention of ever writing a novel (“It would take too long”) she sent her short stories to a publisher, with a letter saying she’d started work on a novel. Though she was brought up in a home where a lot of oral story-telling went on, it never occurred to her that she could write.
Marian Keyes is one of the most successful Irish novelists of all time.
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