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Marian Keyes would be a great MN live chat guest

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MamaG · 07/05/2007 14:50

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AitchTwoOh · 07/05/2007 21:50

she writes Too Many Jokes, i think. she could do with writing a story and then we'd be able to tell if she's a writer or not. and she really, really is chick lit. she practically invented it.

Rachmumoftwo · 07/05/2007 21:49

I think MK is fab. She is funny and close to the bone at the same time. She writes women like us so well because she is a woman like us. I would love to see her on a MN chat.

Enid · 07/05/2007 21:49

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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MamaG · 07/05/2007 21:48

....her best friends were her bottle of chardonnay and her Manolos......

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dressedupnowheretogo · 07/05/2007 21:48

i find her very interesting after reading about her battles with alchol in a very unglamourous way rather than look at me im all famous it so hard kinda way that la lohan et al carry on with

Enid · 07/05/2007 21:47

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

southeastastra · 07/05/2007 21:47

i like to read about her alcoholic past, i can relate to that

she really isn't chick lit

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MamaG · 07/05/2007 21:47

...Enid was a sassy 24 year old living the high life, searching for Mr Right in her size 12 Oasis Scarlet jeans...

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Enid · 07/05/2007 21:46

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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MamaG · 07/05/2007 21:46

Mumsnet. the ultimate chick lit

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rowan1971 · 07/05/2007 21:46

Honest, Enid. Any book witrh a line-drawing of a long-limbed poppety-type lady-boo with a glass of champers and a handbag usually has me trying the exits. I read Proper Literature for Eggheads, me. But MK is unusually acute, and has a really good ear for dialogue. Her jokes are also really quite funny.

hermykne · 07/05/2007 21:44

style coucil - does she not live in dublin?

Enid · 07/05/2007 21:43

i hate chick lit

cannot read it (apart from mumsnet obv )

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MamaG · 07/05/2007 21:42

Enid you snob

She's actually very funny [she said haughtily]

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Enid · 07/05/2007 18:17

ah

'chick-litty'

littlelapin · 07/05/2007 18:16

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Enid · 07/05/2007 18:15

who is she?

StyleCouncil · 07/05/2007 18:15

Mumsnet has plenty of mums ttc so I dont' think it would offend her in any way.

rowan1971 · 07/05/2007 16:43

I like her - she the only chick-litty author I have any time for.

unknownrebelbang · 07/05/2007 16:33

I keep read Marion Keyes as Milton Keynes.

Time for a trip to the optician, methinks.

InTheseShoes · 07/05/2007 16:32

Marian is ace, she has a fab website with a monthly newsletter www.mariankeyes.com which is very entertaining and not dissimilar to her books in tone.

I do know that her childlessness is an issue for her, I wonder if asking for a chat with her would be prudent in those circumstances? I suppose she can only say no.

southeastastra · 07/05/2007 15:21

yes i'd like to talk to her too, does she do a column i marie claire? it's very funny

lissielou · 07/05/2007 15:13

oooh, i d love to chat to her, rachels holiday is one of my fave books of all time!

StyleCouncil · 07/05/2007 15:09

yes she does come across that way - very perky - but her own story is a very interesting one. She is a recovering alcoholic with a witty outlook on life in Limerick.

LieselVentouse · 07/05/2007 15:03

I dont like her
I remember her last year on Big Brothers Little Brother and went right off her