Marian Keyes: What has been your biggest disappointment?

Originally asked

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

This exact question recurs in The Guardian's institutional Q&A pool.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

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

Jo Brand English entertainer

The power of the press.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 September 2015 source ↗

Nora Ephron Journalist, essayist, screenwriter and film director

The movies I made that didn't work.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 September 2009 source ↗

Cynthia Nixon American actress and politician

When I was about 15, I auditioned to play Alice In Wonderland on Broadway, and they cast someone else. I never got over it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2017 source ↗

Gina McKee British actress

As a kid, I conjured up a glorious image of Buckingham Palace. I was totally deflated when I saw it for real.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 January 2016 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 ↗

Search the directory for somebody in particular.