Watermelon
  • Published: 28 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405976206
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560

Watermelon

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28 Oct 2025
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24 Nov 2022
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6 Jul 2017
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Rediscover the hilarious, poignant and insightful first novel from the now worldwide no. 1 bestselling author

On the day she gives birth to her first child, Claire's husband James tells her he's been having an affair.

Left with a beautiful baby and a broken heart, she decides to go back to basics . . . and runs home to Mum and Dad.

But it's not the sanctuary she'd been hoping for. Juggling her family's drama and the demands of a baby, Claire desperately misses the way things were. So when James gets back in touch, eager to put things right, Claire faces a choice.

Will she forgive and forget? Or can she find the courage to take a chance on herself, and start a life of her own?
  • Published: 28 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405976206
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
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About the author

Marian Keyes

Marian Keyes was born in Limerick in 1963, and brought up in Cavan, Cork, Galway and Dublin. She studied law and accountancy before turning to writing. Her first novel Watermelon was published in Ireland in 1995, where it was an immediate, runaway success. Marian Keyes is now one of the most successful Irish novelists of all time and is published in thirty nine different languages. She lives in Dún Laoghaire with her husband Tony.

Marian Keyes is the international bestselling author of Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other Side of the Story and Anybody Out There. Her two collections of journalism, Under the Duvet and Further Under the Duvet, are also available in Penguin. Marian lives in Dublin with her husband.

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Praise for Watermelon

Praise for Marian Keyes

Magnificently messy lives, brilliantly untangled. Funny, tender and completely absorbing!

Graham Norton

Funny, heartbreaking, achingly real

Jane Fallon

No other author marries heartbreak and hilarity so seamlessly

Mail On Sunday

Funny, heart-breaking and so wise

Daily Mail

There should be a word to describe the sadness and satisfaction you feel when you read the last page of a Marian Keyes novel: the ending is perfect but you still want more, more, more

Liane Moriarty

Sensitive, funny, wonderful, immensely touching

Nigella Lawson

Keyes is an exceptional storyteller and her ability to blend comedy, high drama and emotional depth is second to none. Empathetic, insightful, romantic and witty

Daily Express
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