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"Make-up's fun, an opportunity to tinker with our identity," says Marian. "However, another part of me is sad about the amount of pressure that's put on women to look good.
The Tribune
She says she is prone to bouts of despair and melancholy, yet her books are firmly stamped with a happy-everafter guarantee.
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If she does get sick of writing, however, she has an alternative career planned. Recently, she's been making a lot of soup and jokes that she could start selling it from the bay window of her Dun Laoghaire sitting room. "I've it all planned," she says. "I'd sell the soup in lovely pink flasks." If her soups are nearly as good as her books, she could be onto a winner.
Sunday Times
“I can’t be a whinger. I am subject to extreme bleakness at times, and very much in touch with despair. I always feel on the brink of toppling into the pit. And when I do topple, I can’t show that side, because people don’t want that, and that’s fair enough.”