Marian Keyes





Marian Keyes

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Marian Keyes, born September 10, 1963, is a popular Irish writer, considered to be one of the original progenitors of "chick lit". Keyes' first novel, Watermelon, was published in Ireland in 1995. Since then she has published seven further novels and two collections of non-fiction, and has sold 15 million copies of her books in 30 languages.



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Average rating: 3.71 · 209,809 ratings · 8,475 reviews · 41 distinct works · Similar authors
Sushi for Beginners
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 28,467 ratings — published 2000 — 53 editions
Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 27,483 ratings — published 1995 — 44 editions
Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Fam...
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 24,653 ratings — published 1997 — 44 editions
Anybody Out There? (Walsh F...
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 21,855 ratings — published 2006 — 52 editions
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Ma...
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 19,534 ratings — published 1996 — 32 editions
The Other Side of the Story
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 17,653 ratings — published 2004 — 46 editions
Last Chance Saloon
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 17,352 ratings — published 1999 — 41 editions
This Charming Man
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 14,206 ratings — published 2008 — 37 editions
 Angels (Walsh Family, #3)
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 13,229 ratings — published 2002 — 46 editions
The Brightest Star in the Sky
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 9,186 ratings — published 2009 — 32 editions
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“Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.”
Marian Keyes, Watermelon

“It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops.

And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work.”
Marian Keyes, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

“why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.”
Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story

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