Marian Keyes: When were you happiest?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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Recorded Marian Keyes said elsewhere, not written here

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.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 January 2021 source ↗

Others on this question

Cybill Shepherd American actress and former model

Visiting my children at college. I don't stay long, because their lives are so busy - the way they should be.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗

Seth Meyers American comedian and TV host

My wedding day, listening to my brother’s best-man speech.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2015 source ↗

Jennifer Hudson American singer and actress

Around the holidays, because I get to spend them with family and friends.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2018 source ↗

Louis Smith English artistic gymnast

When I was a kid with no responsibilities.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 July 2013 source ↗

Not having had children.

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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