Invisible Woman is a clear success
Glamorous Lisa Edwards is a nasty piece of work.
She thrives on belittling her colleagues and thinks nothing of stealing other people's ideas.
Marian Keyes is her creator.
She is compassionate about the plight of the homeless and, despite selling nearly three million books worldwide, describes herself as "nondescript".
The author couldn't be further from the main character in her new novel, 'Sushi for Beginners.'
But despite featuring vulnerable heroines in her previous four books, Marian has relished looking through the eyes of a power-tripping egomaniac.
She's currently one of the best-known names in women's fiction and fans will be queuing up for signed copies of her latest release when the Irish novelist visits Kirkcaldy on Monday.
'Sushi for Beginners', officially released in hardback on November 2nd, is the story of a Prada-wearing magazine editor forced to abandon her perfect life in London to launch a new magazine in Dublin.
But she reckons Dublin is "a one-horse town - and the horse is wearing last season's Hilfiger."
Already book shops have snapped up copies in anticipation of the same success enjoyed by Marian's previous novels, 'Watermelon', 'Last Chance Saloon', 'Rachel's Holiday' and 'Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married.'
Marian believes the inspiration for the book - her first social satire and hardback - may have subconsciously come from her own return to the Emerald isle from London.
Becoming an author was something Marian never believed she'd do.
After gaining a law degree she went to London and waited on tables before getting a job in an accounts office.
But she added: "Your true nature will out and it did when I was 30."
Her first book, 'Watermelon', was published after she sent some short storied to a publisher and lied that she was writing a novel, she said.
Although she steers away from using her books as a form of polemic she does admit to exploring the issue of homelessness.
"It's something I feel passionate about," she said. "It's barbaric to have human beings sleeping on cold streets when there's plenty of money."
Marian has held onto her anonymity despite her name gracing the window of book shops up and down the country.
Already Marian is working on her next novel.
She revealed to Tlyf that it features a 32-year-old woman who leaves her husband and rebels in Los Angeles.
Besides her sixth book, though her other future plan is having a family.
She said: "I'll take it one book at a time. I would like to do plays but at the moment there isn't time."
Marian Keyes will be signing at the Kirkcaldy branch of Ottawa 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm on October 30th.
Speaking to Tlyf, 37-year-old Marian, said: "I wanted to write about someone really unpleasant.
"I wonder what it must be like to be powerful and not care about what people think about you."
"It's the whole thing of a stranger arriving in Dublin.
"Moving back had such an impact on me. I was worried that I'd hate the small town feel of Dublin but what I hadn't realised was that while I'd been away it had become Groovyville," she explained.
She said: "I applied to study a post-graduate in journalism and was mortified when I didn't get in.
"I thought 'clearly I have no talent in writing' and for the best part of 10 years I forgot about it."
"I wrote four chapters in a week and was offered a three-book contract on the strength of it."
"I'm small and non-descript, " she said. "I look invisible.
"I'm the kind of person that if I go into department stores the women that spray perfume never spray it on me.
"Sometimes people hear my name and they look at me and go nah, it can't be her.'"