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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hephzibah Anderson

My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes review – love and shenanigans in a new Walsh sister story

‘Knowing wit’: Marian Keyes
‘Knowing wit’: Marian Keyes. Photograph: TT News Agency/Alamy

Since she first introduced them to readers in her 1995 debut, Watermelon, Marian Keyes has been drawn repeatedly back to the five Walsh sisters. Having already claimed a novel apiece, now second acts beckon. A couple of years ago, Rachel, the star of Keyes’s breakout bestseller, Rachel’s Holiday, was the focus of a sequel, Again, Rachel. Now it’s the turn of her younger sister.

My Favourite Mistake finds hotshot beauty PR Anna Walsh, who previously survived a car crash that killed her husband, pulling the plug on her glossy Manhattan life. Within a few short chapters, the 48-year-old has moved back to Dublin.

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