Sunday Mirror
Marian spells success with a suicide note
Alone drunk and sad, Marian Keyes wrote what she believed would be her last words.
She was so sorry she said, but she couldn't stop drinking. She didn't know what to do. An overdose seemed the only escape. Thankfully, her suicide attempt was unsuccessful.
Three years on, Marian is clear-eyed, happily married and confident alcohol will never touch her lips again. Never having had a word published before writing the suicide note she is now coming towards her first million as the paperback sensation of 1997.
This week Irish-born Marian's second novel Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married is climbing up the best-seller lists. It's a romantic meander through modern city life centred on a group of girl flatmates. Lucy, like Marian in her day days, is unlucky in love - until she visits a tarot-card reader who predicts she'll meet Mr Right.
At over 700 pages it's a big read but Marian's gift for making us laugh at ourselves makes it well worth the effort.