As one of our most popular authors, Marian Keyes has been bringing joy to her fans for nearly 30 years, so there was no doubt in her mind what direction her 16th novel should go in.
With the world seemingly in turmoil after Covid-19, she wanted to cheer up her readers by giving them another book centred around her beloved Walsh family characters.
“I had plans to write an entirely different book, but I was finding the world so dreadful and hard post-pandemic. The war in Ukraine and everything else was just too much,” she tells HELLO! in our exclusive interview.
“I didn’t want to be someone who wrote a book with bad things and bad people, so I wrote something I wanted to