Reviews
Cambridge Evening News
Sushi for Beginners uses the frothy backdrop of a woman's magazine in Dublin, it tackles both depression and betrayal. It may sound heavy but the plot is fast-moving enough not to feel leaden.
Company
Blockbuster -queen-in-the-making Marian Keyes turns her attention to the world of glossy mags.
Cosmopolitan
A laugh-out-loud book.
Dunedin Star
Keyes truly gets down to the nitty gritty of real-life people. No cardboard cut-outs here.
Elle
Marian Keyes is on her usual top form with Sushi for Beginners.
EP
If you're looking for a Christmas present or easy holiday reading, this book is an ideal choice.
Evening Standard
As the three women interact, the underlying tensions in their lives become unravelled.
Grace
...Marian Keyes romps her way through the world of women's magazines.
Heat
Keyes' latest is certainly enjoyable...
Image
It should [also] keep Keyes' many fans happy, delivering her trademark mix of humour and wry observation.
Independent
Marian Keyes is chick-lit's class act.
Irish Independent
Her latest is likely to be another bestseller, says Martina Devlin.
Magpie Magazine
Keyes continues in the light-hearted vein that made her earlier books a hit with readers.
Mail on Sunday
This heart-warming Irish stew of a love story, seasoned with sympathy and plenty of comic charm, is a must for Keyes fans.
Metro North
Populated by cleverly-sketched stand-up comedians, taxi drivers and even the occasional love interest, Sushi for Beginners allows Keyes to show off the Irish wit that sets her apart form the current of young female novelists.
Next
Sushi for Beginners is soul food of the sharp, bittersweet kind, drenched in saucy humour.
Now
Marian Keyes delivers a juicy read that'll have you engrossed long after the sunsets.
NZ Herald
The book is a breeze to read and shows Keyes at the top of her form.
Observer [Review of the Audio]
The elusive goal of happiness is a familiar one for Keyes and that is why she writes about it with such dexterity.
Paisley Express
Meet the motley crew of the soon to be launched new Irish glossy women's magazine Colleen.
Play
Keyes's greatest strength as a writer is her unerring eye for comic vulnerability. Through perceptive and funny (in particular with her description of AbFab glossy magazine life), she is a sympathist, rather than a satirist.
Port Elizabeth Press
Sharp and ruthlessly funny, book number five, Sushi for Beginners is set in the glamorous world of the magazine industry. It is about searching for happiness.
Saturday Independent
Aspirational without being patronising, Keyes's books are well researched.
She
The story covers the lives and loves of the staff of a Dublin-based magazine.
SST
While this isn't laugh-out-loud material like her earlier books, it's more upbeat than her previous novel.
Sunday Age
This is the best of this year's chick lit, popular fiction a cut above the massed ranks of Bridget Jones look-alikes.
Sunday Express
This, the fifth novel by Marian Keyes, should come with a health warning. It's totally addictive.
Tallaght Echo
Intriguing, fast paced and with that unmistakable Keyes style, Sushi for Beginners is a must-read book.
The Independent On Sunday
The novel is not so much about finding a partner in an increasingly time-starved world, or about the highly amusing observations of office life, or even about adapting to new environments, although all those elements are there. It is, of course, about the nature of relationships between women, how they negotiate friendships, share their joys, pass on their pain. Keyes has a real talent for making it all seem fresh and funny; easy to identify with but also new.
The Guardian
"This fucking country," fumes one character, contemplating her enforced move to the backwater of Dublin.
The Irish Times
Anyone who's inclined to thumb their noses snootily at this type of fiction should think again. This one's a page-turner.
The Observer
...chronicles the adventures of over-achieving, under-eating London sub-editor Lisa after she is given the unwelcome job of launching a glossy in Ireland with only a bunch of amateurs to help her.
Times
...in Sushi for Beginners, as in her other books, she devotes much of her attention - and humour - to the details of office life.
Wairarapa Times
Despite being 600 pages long the comedy never flags.
Osbourne Herald
Marian Keyes the Queen of feel good fiction is back ... this time with a story that revolves around a somewhat disorganised office which is the base for a newly established Irish women's magazine called (you guessed it) Colleen.