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  • Published: 11 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405922081
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

Making It Up As I Go Along

British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022



Welcome to the magnificent Making It Up as I Go Along - a.k.a. the World According to Marian Keyes™

'Will make you laugh, cry and feel less alone. Fabulous' Good Housekeeping

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.

  • Published: 11 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405922081
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

About the author

Marian Keyes

Marian Keyes is a phenomenon. The multimillion copy, internationally bestselling author of some of the most widely loved genre-defying novels of the past thirty years – including Rachel’s Holiday, Anybody Out There and Grown Ups – has millions of devoted readers around the world. In addition to her sixteen novels, Marian has also written three collections of journalism, upon which hit BBC Radio 4 show Between Ourselves was based. Marian co-hosts the popular show Now You’re Asking with actress Tara Flynn for BBC Radio 4. In 2022, she was named British Book Awards Author of the Year. Production is underway on a second season of the hit comedy-drama The Walsh Sisters for RTÉ, in association with the BBC, inspired by Marian’s novels and Netflix is adapting her 2020 novel Grown Ups, which is scheduled to be released in 2027. Marian lives in Dublin.

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Praise for Making It Up As I Go Along

A hilarious, sympathetic read

Hello!

Keyes manages to verbalize the most mundane of universal experiences and somehow make them funny . . .

Sunday Tribune

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

Packed with hilarious, sharp-eyed observations on life, love and everything else

Woman & Home

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.

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Will make you laugh out loud

Sun

Will make you laugh, cry and feel less alone. Fabulous

Good Housekeeping

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