Marian Keyes: What has been your biggest disappointment?

Originally asked

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Recorded Marian Keyes said elsewhere, not written here

Not having had children.

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

Others on this question

Rose Ayling-Ellis British actress

I didn’t email my grandfather enough before he passed away.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 August 2024 source ↗

Sinéad O'Connor Irish singer and songwriter

That so far none of my children has told me they're gay.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 June 2013 source ↗

Louis Walsh Irish music manager and television personality

America – there are too many Americans.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2017 source ↗

Toyah Willcox English singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter

The world doesn’t reward talent, it mostly rewards those who are connected.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2019 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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