Marian Keyes has accepted that life doesn’t always come with a rule book

Marian Keyes’ latest book, Making It Up As I Go Along, is a collection of essays about modern life. The writer, now on the ‘other side’ of crippling depression, tells Hannah Stephenson why she’s accepted that life doesn’t always come with a rule book

JUST a few years ago, bestselling female fiction writer Marian Keyes was in the depths of despair, suicidal and unable to function properly.

The top Irish writer — whose novels, including Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married, This Charming Man and The Brightest Star In The Sky, have been translated into 36 languages and sold more than 33 million copies worldwide — had been under a cloud of clinical depression for more than four years.