Marian Keyes – Edinburgh Book Festival Online

Marian Keyes: Family Matters
Wed 19 August, 2020 19:00 – 20:00
The New York Times Main Theatre Online
Free, online
Marian Keyes didn’t start writing until her twenties, she felt that she was ‘all washed up at 30.’ But readers have had a love affair with Keyes that has lasted over two decades now.
It’s hard to imagine a greater, more reliable comfort than a new book by Marian Keyes landing solidly in your lap, promising all the qualities that have come to define her work: complicated family dynamics, bountiful quantities of laughter, skeletons in the closet and uncomfortable moments of truth that lie close to the bone. Her latest, Grown Ups, centres around Cara Casey, who after a bang on the head finds herself incapable of keeping mum on the family secrets.
With more than 35 million copies sold of her 13 novels to date, Keyes’s own brand of irrepressible, generous, hilarious storytelling goes from strength to strength. Join Keyes and writer Jenny Colgan for an evening of unforgettable grown-up fun.
This is a live event, with an author Q&A.
Part of our Ground-breaking Voices in Literature series of events.
This section: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Edinburgh Book Festival, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Related Pages
- Andrew O’Hagan In Conversation with Kirstin Innes
- Aye Write 2025: Denise Mina and Helen Fields in conversation with Bryan Burnett
- Love Letters To A Murder – The Mythology of Madeleine Smith
- Book Launch: Benbecula by Graeme Macrae Burnet
- Reclaim the Clyde – Poetry and Music to celebrate our river
- The Glasgow Shanty Festival
- Falling Out and Fighting Back
- A Kick Up The Arts – In Conversation with Denise Mina
- Glasgow Doors Open Days 2025 Alasdair Gray Archive
- Creative Conversations: Isabel Stilwell
- Ocean with David Attenborough: Community Screening & Q&A at GFT
- Walking Tour: Tracing Glasgow’s Imperial Past in Kelvingrove Park
- Flight of the Wild Geese, Refuweegee Fundraiser
- Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2025
- tell it slant at Locavore
- Autumn Fun Day – The Children’s Wood
- Magi, Ali and Ian at The Stand at Websters
- Sirens Calling and On the Scent of the Honeyed Hive, Linda Jackson and Lesley O’Brien
- A Kick Up The Arts – Nicola Meighan in conversation with Ambrose Parry at The Stand at Websters
- BLOODY SCOTLAND 2025