‘Keyes at her best: capturing everyday voices with humour and empathy with writing that you’ll devour in a weekend. Warm-hearted, wise and highly entertaining’ OBSERVER Marian Keyes shows superb skill at tackling tough themes in this tale of a clan with secrets. ‘ Hilarious, alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking.

Keyes knows how to make serious issues relatable – and get a few grownup laughs, too’ THE GUARDIAN Grown Ups has an almost Austenesque insight into character. She lives in Dún Laoghaire with her husband Tony. Marian Keyes is now one of the most successful Irish novelists of all time and is published in thirty nine different languages. Her first novel Watermelon was published in Ireland in 1995, where it was an immediate, runaway success.

Theyre a glamorous family, the Caseys.Johnny Casey, his two brother. Read 3,440 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. She studied law and accountancy before turning to writing. Grown-Ups by Marian Keyes Grown-Ups book. It’s nice to get simple, vicarious thrills from a novel.Marian Keyes was born in Limerick in 1963, and brought up in Cavan, Cork, Galway and Dublin. And, though I have swithered on this point, it is refreshing to read a story that is up-to-date but which proceeds blissfully outside the common reality of closed theatres, empty festival venues and shut shops. To that extent, all writers face a choice: to write a story within a pandemic backdrop – because that is what this year has been – or to assume, as Marian has done – hey, it’s fiction – that the pandemic exists in another kind of reality that has no bearing on the Casey’s family story. In common with most authors writing this year, Keyes has faced a dilemma: the story is firmly set in 2020 and so Keyes has opted to assume that the pandemic is not happening. It’s a good, long read, with no wasted words and it’s obvious that a great deal of thought has been invested in crafting the narrative.

To see how Keyes brings each character to life and keeps them distinct and relevant is impressive, as the story weaves and comes to its conclusion. I would love Keyes to write a follow up as I’m keen to know what happens next to all the characters, chancers and sweet souls that people this novel. ‘ Grown Ups’ feels like the first volume in a longer series. You can find the first part of this review here

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