Marian Keyes: What has been your biggest disappointment?

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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

Francesca Martinez British comedian

The 2019 general election.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 March 2020 source ↗

Christopher Eccleston English actor

Falling off the stage in the third preview of Macbeth at the RSC.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2019 source ↗

Not being a scratch golfer.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 July 2025 source ↗

Andi Oliver British cook, television and radio broadcaster, singer

The fact that I didn’t get more success in the music industry.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 December 2021 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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