Marian Keyes: What disappointment has stayed with you longest?

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Marian Keyes

Irish writer

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Not having had children.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 January 2021 source ↗

Others on this question

Louis Smith English artistic gymnast

Not taking more time out from work for holidays.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 July 2013 source ↗

Sally Hawkins British actress

Realising that I wasn't a fairy changeling child and that David Bowie wasn't the fairy king.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 July 2011 source ↗

Engelbert Humperdinck British singer

Not understanding the business side of my career enough. I could have probably been much wealthier than I am.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 February 2019 source ↗

Politics. And casting directors.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2023 source ↗

Last Tuesday, lying on the couch, watching Schitt’s Creek with my husband. Happiness is the small, ordinary days, not the big, up-in-lights ones.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 January 2021 source ↗

The people I worked with when I was in the final two years of my drinking.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 January 2021 source ↗

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