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Keyes to success

Would you like to know the story about Marian Keyes, then keep on reading. Marian Keyes is an ordinary Irish woman who became a successful author in just a few years. Her books have been sold in over five million copies and can be bought in thirty-five countries. She is specially popular among teenage girls and young women.

The thirty-nine year old author Marian Keyes was born in the West of
Ireland. After college she moved to London from Dublin where she grow up. In London
she ended up working in a firm of accountants and she had no plans of becoming a writer.
But she wrote short stories in her spare time.
Marian had always had a low self esteem and that lead into a drinking problem which
finally took over her life. When she was thirty she almost killed herself. After the suicide
attempt Marian got into rehab and got sober, which she still is. When she came out of
rehab she sent her stories to a publisher.
The publisher liked it and gave her a contract that allowed her to publish three books.
In 1995 her first book was introduced into the market. Today Marian lives in Dublin
with her English husband and she works full-time as a writer.

The novels

Marian has published five books and her sixth will soon be
released. Her first is called ‘Watermelon’, and then there are ‘Rachel’s Holiday’, ‘Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married’, ‘The Last Chance Saloon’ and a book filled with short stories from
her own life. The newest novel has Marian called ‘Angels’.
‘Rachel’s holiday’ is about twenty-seven years old Rachel
who lives in New York. She hates her job and in the nights she drinks, dances, takes drugs and enjoys life. One night Rachel
takes an overdose and

her family and boyfriend send her to a rehabilitation centre. She is very angry with them
because she doesn’t think she needs any help, she isn’t addicted to drugs. Rachel hates the
rehab and all the other patients but she stays because she has heard that famous actors get treatment there. After a while she realises that there isn’t any superstars living there.
But at that point she wants help so she doesn’t try to leave.
In the end she moves back to New York and keeps on with her life, but without the drugs. Marian in her books
Keyes’ books are written in a comic way although they contain serious problems.
Her books are written about young Irish women moving abroad and living wild until
everything goes wrong. Often the characters get hooked on drugs and wrong men.
Luckily they have their family, friends and boyfriend who support them.
The endings are like in the fairytails where the prince and the princess get each other in
the end. As you probably already noticed Keyes bases her stories on her own experiences.
Maybe that is the reason why so many people like her books all over the world.
We have read all her books and think they are very entertaining and recommend
you to read them.