Keyes writes about mental illness, addiction, and romance in a way that is refreshingly authentic and realistic. From her Walsh Family series to her standalones, all of the Marian Keyes books in order share similar themes. Marian Keyes manages to write simultaneously heart-wrenching and hilarious stories. Marian lives in Dublin with her husband.Last updated on December 13th, 2022 at 09:53 am Her journalism, collected under two titles, Making It Up As I Go Along and Under the Duvet: Deluxe Edition, containing the original publications Under the Duvet and Further Under the Duvet, are also available from Penguin. Marian Keyes is the international bestselling author of 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, The Break and Grown Ups. There is still her trademark humour to be found between the pages though and highly astute character observations, love em or loathe em you can’t help but admire how she writes em!

That being said once I got into it I really started to enjoy it, covering some hard hitting topics (Marian Keyes never has shied away from doing that) some of which made uncomfortable reading. With such a large family it took a while to gauge who was who and I had to keep referring back to the family tree.

The parents of the brothers are bloody awful and the title is pure irony as the children are more grown up than the adults. We then go back six months, to Easter in Kerry, and learn about this large dysfunctional Irish family and what events led up to the birthday dinner. Cara suffering from concussion after a recent head injury inadvertently spills all the family secrets. The prologue opens with Johnny’s birthday dinner where the whole family are in attendance. This book follows the Casey brothers and their respective wives, children and an ex wife. I read this as March’s monthly readalong with Facebook group Novels&Natter. Three very different women tied to three very different men.Įvery family occasion is a party – until the day the secrets spill out. Married to brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam Casey.

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