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Marian Keyes
Born10 September 1963 (age 55)
Limerick, Ireland
OccupationWriter, novelist
NationalityIrish
Alma materDublin University
Period1995–present
GenreWomen's literature
SubjectDomestic violence, drug abuse, mental illness, divorce and alcoholism
Notable worksFiction
Watermelon (1995)
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married (1996)
This Charming Man (2008)
Spouse
Tony Baines (m. 1995)
Website
www.mariankeyes.com
Marian Keyes (born 10 September 1963) is an Irish novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for her work in women's literature. She is an Irish Book Awards winner. By March 2017 over 35 million copies of her twelve novels preceding The Break (2017) have been sold and been translated into 33 languages.[1] She became known worldwide for Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Anybody Out There, and This Charming Man, with themes including alcoholism, depression, addiction, cancer, bereavement, and domestic violence.[2]

Biography

Born in Limerick and raised in Monkstown (Dublin), Keyes graduated from Dublin University with a law degree. After completing her studies, Keyes took an administrative job before moving to London in 1986. During this period she developed alcoholism and clinical depression, culminating in a suicide attempt and subsequent rehabilitation in 1995 at the Rutland Centre in Dublin, Ireland. In an article for The Telegraph, Keyes details how her struggles with anxiety, depression, and alcoholism began from an early age.[3]
Keyes began writing short stories while suffering from alcoholism. After her treatment at the Rutland Centre she returned to her job in London and submitted her short stories to Poolbeg Press. The publisher encouraged her to submit a full-length novel and Keyes began work on her first book, Watermelon. The novel was published the same year. Since 1995 she has published 13 novels and four works of nonfiction.[4]
Keyes has written frankly about her clinical depression,[5] which left her unable to sleep, read, write, or talk.[6] After a long hiatus due to severe depression, a food title, Saved by Cake, was released in February 2012.[7]
All in all this dark period lasted about four years. During this time Keyes also wrote The Mystery of Mercy Close, a novel where the heroine experiences similar battles with depression and suicide attempts that Keyes herself battled with.[8] Keyes further describes this period of her life as "It was like being in an altered reality . . . I was always melancholic and prone to sadness and hopelessness but this was catastrophic and unimaginable."
In March 2017 Keyes was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. Her favourite track was "You Have Been Loved" by George Michael.[9] She revealed that she had battled constant suicidal urges at the height of her mental illness.[10] During her appearance on Desert Island Discs, Keyes also tells host Kirsty Young that in spite of all her efforts to treat her depression, ranging from cognitive behavioural therapy, medication, mindfulness, hospitalisation, diets, among others, what finally healed her was time. "It was an illness and it ran its course."[11]
In 2014, after Keyes went on Marian Finucane's RTÉ One show to talk about her new book, she told her Twitter followers that Finucane had the "compassion and empathy of a cardboard box. Even my mammy called her a bad word".[12]
In 2015, she herself was accused of a lack of empathy after offending the people of two counties - Leitrim and Roscommon - by insulting them on the night of the election count in the marriage referendum. Even though she deleted her original comment she admitted to having done so for "a cheap laugh", one which alienated readers in two counties.[13]
Keyes currently lives in Dún Laoghaire with her husband Tony Baines, after returning to Ireland from London in 1997.

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