Marian Keyes talks about staying sober, managing depression and Irish storytelling at the Hay Festival.
Bestselling author Marian Keyes has said she would never have become a writer if she hadn't got sober 30 years ago.
While she grew up in a loving family with "a fabulous mother", Keyes said people used to joke that "any Irish mother who was discovered giving her child self-esteem was stripped of their citizenship." "Humour was the way we were valued in the home. You had to be funny. Any bad thing that happened to us, I learnt that that bad thing plus 20 minutes meant a funny anecdote!""We were colonised for so long, we were not allowed to speak our language, we couldn't own property, we weren't allowed to be educated, we weren't allowed to practice our religion. Very little was left, it was basically music and words. Words are our survival.
Graham Norton once noted that "she uses humour like a Trojan horse, in which she smuggles in all sorts of difficult issues."It's a follow-up to her 2006 novel, Anybody Out There?, where we catch up again with high flying PR executive Anna Walsh, one of the Walsh sisters, who first appeared in Keyes's debut, Watermelon.
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