Port Elizabeth Press
Having sold nearly three million copies of her four books worldwide, the Irish writer Marian Keyes is now one of the most successful and popular writers around today. She will be in Port Elizabeth tomorrow to launch her new book, Sushi for Beginners, at 5.30pm at Exclusive Books in Walmer Park.
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. And how, if you let things bubble under the surface for too long, sooner or later they'll boil over.
Keyes's last novel Last Chance Saloon sold 300,000 in mass market paperback in the first month of publication in the UK and went straight into the bestseller lists. Watermelon has been optioned for a 90 minute film for Granada Television in the UK and Touchstone Picture have bought the film rights of Rachel's Holiday for a six figure sum. Some 5 million viewers in the UK watched the TV mini series Lucy Sullivan is getting married.