Marian Keyes is a very successful author of chick-lit, at least some of it with a serious bent. Her novels are simple, long, readable stories concerned with "emotional landscapes"(in her own words). They mix humour and serious matters, with a reasonably good ear for dialogue and something that might develop into an original voice and an apt hand for satirising social mores. One day.
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