Interviews
Evening Herald
Her dependency dragged on her self-esteem. She shuttled between the wrong kind of men, the sort who only served to reinforce the negative impressions she had of herself.
Sunday Independent
Sick of studying and having no money, she put off training to be a solicitor and took an administrative job in the Eastern Health Board. After 18 months, she decided to move to London.
Big Issues
"The family I've written about is gleaned from hundreds of Irish families. Some people have even asked me if I'd been hiding in their closets taking notes amongst the skeletons," explains Keyes.
The Big Issue
My best Christmas was last year. My boyfriend and I had just got engaged and I was delighted.
Unknown
Influences on Marian range from Jilly Cooper to Mills and Boon but without doubt her greatest debt lies with the Irish surrealist writer Flann O'Brien, responsible for The Third Policeman, The Poor Mouth and a few more besides.
Unknown
Her writing style is relentlessly observant and extremely witty. Grittier than Maeve Bincy and less formulaic than Patricia Scanlon. Her description of making a pasta meal for her culinary inept mother is an absolute howl.
Womans Way
"It developed a life of its own, the characters led me. I never knew what was going to happen."