Currently the 67th richest woman in the UK, with sales of her books topping 5m copies, Keyes is now in the Very Good Place.

I've been in the Bad Place myself many's the time, which wasn't very pleasant while it was happening but has since come in very handy for writing about. After a long hiatus due to severe depression, a food title, Saved by Cake, was published in February 2012. During that period, Keyes became addicted to alcohols and eventually became a patient of clinical depression.She went on to "wonder" that "if a group of young Irish men around the same age had been selling in huge numbers", before concluding: "I really think it would not have passed unremarked. Garv pulled off his tie, flung it over the back of a chair, then raked his fingers through his hair, shaking away the vestiges of his work persona. His new flatscreen telly fell on it: (Liam and Elaine had every consumer durable known to man -and I stress man, not woman. And only when the final kiwi fruit had been bounced off the inside of the bin did the black shadow lift and we could relax again. She submitted a few of her short stories to the Poolbeg Press for publication, where the publishers motivated her to develop and submit a full length book.

To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details. So then I reminded myself that my parents were getting older and that I’d be the one who’d end up having to take care of them, and tried to scare myself with that instead. In the last book about Helen, she is trying to navigate the past so as to find what is happening in the future as a private investigator. The main story of the book is set in Dublin, Ireland, and includes the important characters of Adam, Anna Walsh, Kate Walsh, Claire Webster, Helen Walsh, and James Webster. During this time she also wrote The Mystery of Mercy Close, a novel in which the heroine experiences similar battles with depression and suicide attempts as those Keyes herself experienced.She discovers her husband is having an affair and her boss wants to fire her, she therefore flees to Hollywood to stay with her best friend. As she hammered her heels back to her office, I looked appraisingly at the computer I’d just switched off.

Much of the pleasure of Keyes' work lies in the transformation of heroines from gibbering wrecks into loved-up success stories. At the beginning of the book, author Keyes has described a rather inauspicious romance in which the husband of the heroine leaves her for a lady living in the flat downstairs on the day of the birth of their first child. Then he began questioning me about how I’d felt about something or other; probing and delving with the intimacy of a gynaecologist.But is this really a once-in-a-lifetime journey of self-discovery, or is she simply running away from married life?