Five of Keyes’ books centre on Mammy Walsh’s daughters. I have a particular soft spot for the Walsh family. I have everything written by her including collections of her articles and her cake recipes.
Not only do I have to slow down when I reach the end, I have read all of her books three or four times and I always pre-order the next one even if I don’t know what it’s about.
Luckily, she writes lovely, long novels which keep me going for a good while. She ticks the boxes for all of my rules with most of her books – mainly because l I don’t want them to end. Marian Keyes is my absolute go to number one author if I want a bit of escapism and comfort. When I choose my books they have to tick five boxes – you can click here to see a reminder of the the rules If they don’t meet the criterion – they aren’t getting in. This is the second in my series on amazing books I recommended, have a look at my first one: Louis de Bernières and Liane Moriarty. Today this post is all about those funny, warm, and – above all – entertaining books which tell a bloody good story. If I’m having a hard day and there is no wine (or cake) available, these writers make is all better. When I say comfort reading, I mean that the books are so absorbing, so gripping, they help you escape from the world for a few hours. Hugging your loved ones, taking a bath, opening a bottle of wine, watching a good movie, or eating as much cake as you can get in your mouth.Īll of those work for me, but the cake is not a good idea if I’m trying to stick to my low-carb diet. Anna and Aidan were in a car accident in which Aidan died.Reposting in honour of the VERY exciting news Marian Keyes is publishing a sequel to ‘Rachel’s Holiday’ screech!Ĭomfort comes in many forms. Against the advice of her four sisters - characters who have appeared in previous novels - she returns to Manhattan, where the truth is slowly revealed. The fact that Aidan doesn't appear to be answering her e-mails or phone-calls, however, hints at something dire. Physically scarred and sadder than "the hungry babies in Angela's Ashes", she lies on her parents' Dublin sofa with only one thing on her mind - getting back to New York: which means her best friends, her job (working as a beauty PR for an East Village cosmetics company) and above all her husband, Aidan. In a blockbuster that avoids the usual pitfalls - sloppy language, unrealistic characters, unlikely coincidences - Keyes's confronts a subject that worries readers more than men and bad-hair days: how we will cope when someone close to us dies.Īnna Walsh, the novel's narrator, is officially a wreck. Her latest novel, however, shows just how flexible a genre chick-lit can be.
In a previous novel, The Other Side of the Story, the bestselling novelist Marian Keyes bemoaned the fact that writers of popular fiction are rarely taken seriously by the literary world.
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