Mum’s hand went to her mouth, the way a person’s would on telly, if they wanted to indicate anxiety. Keyes' depressive period lasted about four years. During this time she also wrote The Mystery of Mercy Close, a novel in which the heroine experiences similar battles with depression and suicide attempts as those Keyes herself experienced. [9] As Keyes further describes this period of her life: "It was like being in an altered reality . . . I was always melancholic and prone to sadness and hopelessness but this was catastrophic and unimaginable." I’ll bring you up some ice cream in a minute, pet,” Mum said. “Tell me, I’m dying to know, did you get your mark?”

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Yes, I got him. Ding-dong! Right, I’m off to bed.’ Instead she stretched out on one of the many couches. ‘The man spotted me in the hedge, taking his picture.’ Marian Keyes (born 10 September 1963) is an Irish author and radio presenter. She is principally known for her popular fiction.

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It is about Anna Walsh, a woman who is recovering from an injury whilst in her parents' residence in Dublin, Ireland, [2] and is reminiscing about the life she once lived in New York. [1] Anna is married to Aidan and had worked in public relations for a cosmetics firm in East Village. [2] Irish by birth but a trendy New Yorker for the past eight years, Rachel Walsh learns just what it means to have too much fun in this lively drama about addiction and recovery. Rachel enjoys cocaine, Continue reading » The novel is a rare blend of genres, a richly enjoyable satire and an inspirational tale of one woman's triumph over despair Daily Telegraph Dear Jesus,’ a voice said. It was my sister Helen, home from a night’s work. She stood in the doorway of the sitting room, looked round at all the tassels and asked, ‘How can you stand it?’

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Struggling to get on with her life without Aidan and desperate to hear from him at least one last time, Anna neglects her family and friends, making excuses not to see her sister, Rachel, and struggling to keep up with the demands of her job. queens they actually thought this was exciting. Except Dad, and only because he was the one who had to sweep up all the broken glass and Sellotape a plastic bag over the hole until the glazier arrived, approximately six months later. (I suspect Mum and Helen live in a fantasy world where they think someone’s going to come along and turn their lives into a massively successful TV series. In which they will, it goes without saying, play themselves.)Try The Other Side of the Story or rather than taking the plunge straight away, you may want to get a feel for Marian Keyes and read a collection of her newspaper articles, in Under The Duvet. Otherwise you may enjoy Notting Hell by Rachel Johnson or The Nanny. When I’d arrived in Ireland eight weeks earlier, I couldn’t climb the stairs, because of my dislocated kneecap, so my parents had moved a bed downstairs into the Good Front Room.