Marian Keyes EXCLUSIVE for Marie Claire
Marian Keyes is giving Marie Claire readers an exclusive taster of her new ebook, Mammy Walsh's A-Z of the Walsh Family, ahead of the release of her first novel in three years, The Mystery of Mercy Close

Marian Keyes is giving Marie Claire readers an exclusive taster of her new ebook, Mammy Walsh's A-Z of the Walsh Family, ahead of the release of her first novel in three years, The Mystery of Mercy Close
The Mystery of Mercy Close sees the return of Marian Keyes’s much-loved Walsh family, last seen in her 2006 hit, Anybody Out There.
Each of the Walsh sisters, Claire, Rachel, Maggie and Anna have starred in bestselling novels by Marian, from Watermelon (1995), to Rachel’s Holiday (1998), Angels (2002) Anybody Out There (2006) and now The Mystery of Mercy Close (2012).
To whet your appetite for the brand new book, Marian has written an e-book on the dysfunctional Irish family: Mammy Walsh’s A-Z of the Walsh Family - available on kindle and in iTunes from Monday 27th August.
We're running exclusive daily extracts from the e-book on marieclaire.co.uk/mariankeyes so you can read the latest from the Walsh family every day this week:
Day one - A is for alcohol... Day two - Y is for yoghurt,,, Day three - K is for knickers... Day four - P is for padded envelopes... Day five - V is for vajazzling...
Watch Marian's introduction to the Walsh family below:
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Marian Keyes' new novel, The Mystery of Mercy Close is published by Penguin on 13th September 2012.
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