My Favorite Mistake

"Anna has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn't want all that? Anna, it turns out. Turning a minor midlife crisis into a major life event, she switches the skyscrapers of Manhattan for the tiny Irish town of Maumtully (population 1,217), helping old friends Brigit and Colm set up a luxury coastal retreat. Tougher than it sounds. Newsflash: the locals hate the idea. So much so, there have been threats--and violence. Anna, however, worked in the beauty industry. There's no ugliness she hasn't seen. No wrinkle she can't smooth over"--

Marian Keyes is a phenomenon. The multimillion copy, internationally bestselling author of some of the most widely loved, genre-defying novels of the past thirty years--including Rachel's Holiday, Anybody Out There and Grown Ups--has millions of devoted readers around the world. In addition to her fifteen previous novels, Marian has also written two collection of journalism, and in 2022, she was named the British Book Awards Author of the Year. Marian lives in Ireland. My Favorite Mistake is her sixteenth novel.