Grown Ups

Grown Ups

An absorbing page-turner from Sunday Times bestselling author Marian Keyes

Summary

Fed up of being a grown up? Get away from it all with the No. 1 bestseller from Marian Keyes

'Magnificently messy lives, brilliantly untangled. Funny, tender and completely absorbing!'
GRAHAM NORTON
'SUCH a treat. Like reading the cleverest cream cake of words'
CAITLIN MORAN
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MEET JESSIE, CARA AND NELL.

Married to brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam Casey.

Three very different women tied to three very different men.

Every family occasion is a party - until the day the secrets spill out.

PLAYTIME IS OVER.

BUT WHERE ARE THE GROWN-UPS?

This book has been printed with four different colour designs: blue, green, pink and orange. Covers are assigned to orders at random so we are unable to accept specific requests.

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'Comic, convincing and true. Grown Ups has an almost Austenesque insight into character. Keyes knows how to make serious issues relatable - and get a few grownup laughs, too'
GUARDIAN

'Hilarious, alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking. I loved everything about it' DAILY MAIL

'You may have written the best book of your career' CHRIS EVANS, VIRGIN RADIO

'Superb. Warm-hearted, wise and highly entertaining' OBSERVER

'Keyes at her best: capturing everyday voices with humour and empathy with writing that you'll devour in a weekend. Just pure and simple joy' STYLIST

'I loved every word. I will be missing those gorgeous vibrant characters for many weeks to come'
LIANE MORIARTY, bestselling author of Big Little Lies

'Messy, tangled complex humans who reminded me that few of us ever really sort our lives out at all' JOJO MOYES, bestselling author of Me Before You

'Her best yet. Charming, funny and poignant, but also profound, heartbreaking' NINA STIBBE, bestselling author of Reasons to be Cheerful

Sunday Times bestseller April 2023

Reviews

  • Comic, convincing and true. Grown Ups has an almost Austenesque insight into character. Keyes knows how to make serious issues relatable - and get a few grownup laughs, too
    Guardian

About the author

Marian Keyes

Marian Keyes is a phenomenon. The multimillion copy, internationally bestselling author of some of the most widely loved, genre-defying novels of the past thirty years – including Rachel’s Holiday, Anybody Out There and Grown Ups – has millions of devoted readers around the world.

In addition to her fifteen previous novels, Marian has also written three collections of journalism, upon which hit BBC Radio 4 show Between Ourselves was based. Marian co-hosts the popular show Now You’re Asking with actress Tara Flynn for BBC Radio 4. In 2022, she was named the British Book Awards Author of the Year.

Marian lives in Dún Laoghaire, Dublin. My Favourite Mistake is her sixteenth novel.
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