News about Marian Keyes

I'm late for Marian Keyes because the plane was late. However, as I approach her opulent lilac house in Dublin, she flings open the door and embraces me. In her extraordinary voice, she talks quickly, it looks like a flute. She doesn't mind my lateness at all, she says: she was worried, her mother was worried, would I like a biscuit?

She wrote a best-selling book about a woman's journey to sober. Marian Keyes, an Irish author, is celebrating 30 years of being teetotal herself two decades after she first published Rachel's Holiday. She acknowledged that it'broke my heart to stop drinking,' but that 'if I'd continued drinking, I'd probably be dead by now.' After a suicide attempt when she was 30, the broadcaster and author, shown below, went to recover for her alcoholism in January 1994, and she hasn't had a drink since.

Daisy Buchanan, a bookworm, reads Rachel Keyes' Holidays at least once a year, discovering something new each time. It's funny and comforting, but the bulk of the time, it's smart.

A collection of books starring midlife heroes is selling well - some of whom were actually divorced - as publishers increasingly understand that falling in love isn't limited to those beginning out in life, but also those who are moving through the middle (and beyond). A number of recent bestsellers have contributed, particularly the word-of-mouth hit Confessions Of A Forty-Something F*** Up from Alexandra Potter, whose endearing heroine Nell's Confessions Of A Forty-Something F*** Up, isn't where she expected to be at this point in her life. It has sold a quarter of a million copies and spawned the Disney+ series Not Dead Yet, which has landed in the United Kingdom this month.

CARIAD LLOYD: The five stages of grief. Can you name them all? Maybe you could have voiced out indignation and denial in a line-up, but the majority of the story would be a bit hazy (as you could always remember Robbie in Take That, but it was impossible to tell Howard and Jason apart). And yet, the five stages of grief theory is deeply embedded in our culture. Even if the nearest you have to death is the school rabbit dying on your watch, you'll be able to relate to the fact that after someone dies, you will have specific emotions: denial, rage, bargaining, sadness, and acceptance.

If you like to organize your books in a cheerful rainbow order, in piles of decreasing size, or favor the divisive'spines-inwards' trend to display a minimalist canvas of crisp white pages, there is no doubt that the'shelfie' is having a moment. In TikTok's burgeoning 'BookTok' community, there are snaps from proud bookworms displaying their oh-soaesthetically pleasing shelves or sharing their latest literary favorites. And with book sales up and the number of independent bookshops at a ten-year high, it seems that there has never been a better time to embrace the latest interior must-have: a home library.

On Wednesday, the Irish author, 59, took to Twitter to inform her followers that she has been sober for 29 years. She referred to it as a 'wonderful' journey in a candid post and admitted that she felt her life was "over" before she stopped drinking 29 years ago.