Welcome to the magnificent Making It Up as I Go Along - aka the World According to Marian Keyes⢠- A bold and brilliant collection of Marian's hilarious and often heartfelt observations on modern life, love and everything in between.
From a guide to breaking up with your hairdresser to entering the fifties-zone, the joys of her nail varnish museum to singing her way through insomnia, Marian will have you laughing with delight and gasping with recognition throughout - because at the end of the day, each and every one of us is clearly making it up as we go along.
âWill make you laugh, cry and feel less alone. Fabulous' Good Housekeeping
'Never far from barmy, always warm and real. But in the interstices of fun and frippery comes a sincere clarity. At times she is the darkest of light writers' Daily Telegraph
'Keyes manages to verbalize the most mundane of universal experiences and somehow make them funny . . .' Sunday Tribune
'Packed with hilarious, sharp-eyed observations on life, love and everything else' Woman amp; Home
Nora
14/07/2023
Ok. It was not my cup of tea. Marian got me laughing couple of times, but as a person who is not into makeup, not into brands, I had very little interest in some of the parts of the book. Writing style is not my cup of tea either. I never found interest in columns and articles if not to do with social issues, mental health and maybe some political ones. But I might read 1-5 a year. I am more interested in research than short columns or articles for those subjects. And I do enjoy good literature and novels to travel to different places in my immediate, which sadly this book did not do for me. I only read this book because I am doing 2023 reading challenge in Helsinki, Finland and number 17 requested a book that is a collection of essays, articles or columns. And Marian Keyesâ book was highly recommended to me. I think I expected something similar to Leslie Jordanâs How Y'all Doing which I extremely enjoyed last year, when the one recommended told me how funny Marian was. I donât know if I would recommend this book to anyone I know but it might be a great fun read for youth on a beach on summer holidays.