Marian Keyes lives in Dublin. She has published six novels, which have all been international bestsellers, garnering great reviews and selling more than 2.5 million copies: Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon and Sushi for Beginners and Angels.
Three Mothers (2025) Hannah Beckerman "I stayed awake till the early hours to finish Three Mothers. Oh my god, what a great book! I was agog but also invested and moved. This (like all your novels) is so emotionally intelligent. I found it very affecting... I enjoyed it ENORMOUSLY. It's wonderful."
When She Was Gone (2025) Sara Foster "I was gripped by When She Was Gone. I couldn't bear being away from it. The characterization is top notch: such interesting, flawed, nuanced people. And the plotting is excellent--I was guessing and guessing and getting it wrong. I absolutely loved this book."
Murder at Gulls Nest (2025) (Nora Breen, book 1) Jess Kidd "Such an interesting writer with a real gift for detail and atmosphere. I was wildly charmed by Murder at Gulls Nest. Highly recommended."
We All Live Here (2025) Jojo Moyes "The best book she has ever written . . . mature, compassionate, wise."
Fundamentally (2025) Nussaibah Younis "I really, REALLY loved it - the voice, the setting, the plot, all of it. It's original, warm, funny and engaging. A breath of fresh air."
Don't Make Me Laugh (2025) Julia Raeside "A great book, an important book that will start a discussion that needs to be had...my heart was in my mouth."
So Thrilled For You (2025) Holly Bourne "I enjoyed it so, SO MUCH. I was utterly GRIPPED. So many unexpected but wholly believable twists and turns. I think it will resonate for all women. Yet it's so much fun."
The Persians (2025) Sanam Mahloudji "A wonderful multi-generational family drama with characters you really care about. I'm still thinking about them now. I enjoyed it enormously."
Here One Moment (2024) Liane Moriarty "Liane Moriarty is a genuine GENIUS. Here One Moment is off-the-scale brilliant."
Pity Party (2024) Daisy Buchanan "What a read! What a tear jerker! But very funny, and written with such breezy wit, and characters I ADORED. Daisy is EXCELLENT."
You Belong with Me (2024) (Edie Thompson, book 2) Mhairi McFarlane "14/10 on the QWJ scale (queasy with jealousy scale)! I WISH I'd written it. I loved this book so much."
Welcome to Glorious Tuga (2024) (Tuga Trilogy, book 1) Francesca Segal "A magical novel, so uplifting, heartwarming, funny. . . I cannot TELL you how much I adored it! This feels as if it was written specifically to give comfort - the perfect antidote to current climes."
Under Your Spell (2024) Laura Wood "I absolutely adored Under Your Spell, the sweetest, sexiest, funniest romance. It was such a treat!"
You Are Here (2024) David Nicholls "A witty, touching love story. The writing is magnificent: taut and vivid. I was so happy while I was reading it and now I'm bereft. Gorgeous."
The Husbands (2024) Holly Gramazio "WONDERFUL: fresh, original, hugely entertaining and oddly comforting . . . I laughed out loud countless times . . . the most fun I've had reading in the longest time. It is an utter delight."
Dominoes (2024) Phoebe McIntosh "A great book! A warm, fun, sweet love story - which is also about the British slave trade and its legacy. I found it humbling and hopeful and I really CARED about the characters."
Sisterhood (2024) Cathy Kelly "I really, really loved it. I think it's her best book so far, written with maturity and great compassion. The characters are very relatable, Lou was my favourite - I enjoyed this book so much."
The Other Side of Mrs. Wood (2023) Lucy Barker "I absolutely ADORED it. Such a juicy read and written so beautifully. Charming, gorgeous, an utter delight."
This Family (2023) Kate Sawyer "Intriguing, gripping, moving - this deserves to be HUGE."
Tell Me What I Am (2023) Una Mannion "Tell Me What I Am by Una Mannion is very VERY good. About the impact on her family when a woman disappears, it's vividly real. The writing is beautiful, the emotions are conveyed exquisitely. There's love here as well as pain."
My Hot Friend (2023) Sophie White "EXTREMELY funny and refreshingly honest about the unacknowledged complexity of female friendship."
The Happy Couple (2023) Naoise Dolan "I pure LOVED The Happy Couple. So witty, observant, wise and funny. Nihilistic about heteronormative relationships but so charmingly done I barely noticed. I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed it."
Strange Sally Diamond (2023) Liz Nugent "Vivid, pacy, taut but so very moving . . . This novel feels *different* . . . it defies categorisation."
The Close (2023) (Maeve Kerrigan, book 10) Jane Casey "I loved, loved LOVED The Close. If you haven't read Jane Casey, start immediately - excellent police procedurals with DELICIOUS sexual tension."
Demon Copperhead (2022) Barbara Kingsolver "It's EPIC. Righteously angry, DEEPLY moving, wholly immersive, totally convincing and exquisetly written. She is so GIFTED."
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone (2022) (Ernest Cunningham, book 1) Benjamin Stevenson "I absolutely LOVED it. It's so engaging, entertaining and charming. I don't think I've ever read anything like it. It was SUCH a fun read."
Just Got Real (2022) Jane Fallon "I've read - and loved - ALL of Jane Fallon's books, but Just Got Real is her best yet! The plotting is as ingenious and entertaining as ever but this book has a lot of WARMTH and HEART. It's especially gorgeous on female friendship."
Thrown (2022) Sara Cox "Oh my GOD, it's GORGEOUS. Funny, warm, all about people. Has the same generosity-of-spirit she does. You'll LOVE it!"
London, With Love (2022) Sarra Manning "This is already one of my books of the year! . . . A VERY special book - a decades-long 'near miss' love story, it gave me One Day vibes. It's GORGEOUS, real, believable and BEAUTIFUL."
Idol (2022) Louise O'Neill "Fresh, glamorous, and suprising. Dazzles us before revealling the darkness at its heart."
Trespasses (2022) Louise Kennedy "[Louise Kennedy's] debut novel is incredible. Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times, I was consumed by it."
These Days (2022) Lucy Caldwell "Elegant and precise, I loved it. The vivid interiority Caldwell brings to the characters, particularly the three main women, is so impressive. I cared passionately about all of them. These Days is a gem of a novel."
The Exhibitionist (2022) Charlotte Mendelson "A delicious, heartbreaking family snapshot about thwarted ambition, misplaced loyalty and good and bad love. Secrets abound. Fabulously written and utterly compelling."
Breaking Point (2022) Edel Coffey "A gripping, compulsive pageturner about what we expect from women, especially mothers. It's going to be a massive hit."
Magpie (2021) Elizabeth Day "A dark, sleek, ever-tightening spiral …Completely, terrifyingly BRILLIANT."
1979 (2021) (Allie Burns, book 1) Val McDermid "Val McDermid is the absolute QUEEN. Allie is a fabulous character, I'll go wherever she takes me and I'm dying to see what she does next."
The Paper Palace (2021) Miranda Cowley Heller "It's glorious and gorgeous. I was absolutely immersed and gripped and I'm devastated to have finished it."
Everyone is Still Alive (2021) Cathy Rentzenbrink "Incredibly tender and astonishingly insightful. I cared so deeply for the characters and read in genuine awe. An utter gem."
Notebook (2021) Tom Cox "Tom Cox brings magic to the most mundane of subjects."
Bright Burning Things (2021) Lisa Harding "Absolutely dazzling . . . While the subject matter is dear to my heart, I'd have loved it even if I knew nothing about addiction. It's instantly engrossing. Sonya's emotional interiority is fascinating and compelling. I really cared about her and Tommy - they felt very real to me."
The Searcher (2020) (Cal Hooper, book 1) Tana French "Completely, indescribably magnificent. Tana French is a pure genius."
Home Stretch (2020) Graham Norton "Graham Norton's new novel has me in floods... His gift for characterisation is positively Binchy-esque! Such nuance and warmth! It's GORGEOUS."
Ghosts (2020) Dolly Alderton "I loved it so much, I wanted it to go on forever, Dolly Alderton is so gifted at making people care. A rare talent."
The Thursday Murder Club (2020) (Thursday Murder Club, book 1) Richard Osman "Smart, compassionate, warm, moving and so VERY funny. I smiled a million times. This book will make a lot of people very, very happy."
Araminta Hall "Rare and very refreshing ... a novel where middle-aged women are represented in all their wise, sensual, flawed complexity. I enjoyed it SO much."
Olive (2020) Emma Gannon "It'll give a voice to countless women . . . a profound issue wrapped inside an accessible, highly engaging novel."
Black Widows (2020) Cate Quinn "Oh my God, THIS BOOK! Mormon man - three wives, living survivalist lives - is murdered. Each wife is a suspect. I could NOT put it down!!! Utterly compelling, nuanced characterisation, such atmosphere. I LOVED it!"
Below the Big Blue Sky (2020) Anna McPartlin "Well, that was a tearjerker! Anna McPartlin's Below the Big Blue Sky is a MORE than worthy follow-up to The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes."
Remain Silent (2020) (DS Manon Bradshaw, book 3) Susie Steiner "Manon Bradshaw is SUCH a great creation. [Remain Silent] is so spot-on about love, relationships, middle-age, being a woman. The plot … broke my heart. So MOVING."
A Tidy Ending (2020) Joanna Cannon "Original, macabre and the reveal of the twist made me laugh with shock and delight. Never less than intriguing, it had me holding my breath!"
The Museum of Broken Promises (2019) Elizabeth Buchan "I ADORE cold-war novels and I live for love stories - The Museum of Broken Promises is a perfect combination of both. It's a gem of a book... beautiful, elegant."
How It Was (2019) Janet Ellis "You will love this - immersive, amazing, remarkable, I could barely breathe. I cried - and I never cry."
Inheritance (2019) Jenny Eclair "Oh my God, this book! I DEVOURED it! By comedian Jenny Eclair . . . It is SO immersive, atmospheric and compelling. I loved Jenny's last book Moving but this is in another league . . . I recommend it HIGHLY."
The Carer (2019) Deborah Moggach "Unputdownable, fun and tender with characters that jump off the page. Perfection."
Melmoth (2018) Sarah Perry "This is a beautiful, devastating, brilliant book. It affected me so much I was shaking after I read it. The exquisite, immersive writing compelled me to keep reading even through the horrors described."
One Day in December (2018) Josie Silver "One Day in December is the SWEETEST love story. It's gorgeous, absolutely lovely. Readers are going to love it."
Seven Days of Us (2017) Francesca Hornak "LOVED it! Warm and humane, funny and sad, with a great, twisty plot, Seven Days of Us is absolute pleasure reading from beginning to end. Francesca Hornak is a true talent. Just gorgeous!"
The Early Birds (2017) (Future Homemakers of America, book 2) Laurie Graham "Why is Laurie Graham not carried on people's shoulders through cheering crowds? Her books are brilliant!"
Driving Sideways (2008) Jess Riley "Driving Sideways is a gorgeous novel . . . hugely entertaining and very touching. Jess Riley's voice is irreverent and wonderful, and her writing is genius."
Cherries in the Snow (2005) Emma Forrest "A perfect balance of dark and light, edginess and color. Cherries in the Snow is smart, sassy, as sharp as a paper cut, and a massive pleasure to read."
Something Borrowed (2004) (Adventures of Darcy, book 1) Emily Giffin "I absolutely loved it... I could not put it down."
A Perfect Life (2003) Kate Thompson "Kate Thompson's novels are sublimely addictive - insightful, stylish, romantic and funny."
The Lost Souls' Reunion (2002) Suzanne Power "A haunting book, a magical odyssey that takes you to another plane, that stays with you long after you have finished it."
Friends Indeed (2001) Rose Doyle "Beautifully written... enjoyable, entertaining, interesting, full of drama and unexpected twists."
To Be Someone (2001) Louise Voss "Beautifully written...by turns comic and poignant, about friendship, love and redemption. I loved it!"
