There’s Cara who works in a boutique hotel and can manage the most difficult of guests without breaking a sweat, and her lovely, sweet husband Ed. Slowly, month by month we watch as the inner workings of this family are laid bare at a variety of parties, murder mystery weekends and holidays to Italy. What she reveals is kept from us and we pinwheel back in time to 6 months earlier. Then Cara, suffering from concussion spills the metaphorical beans and every Casey secret and lie is laid bare. We meet the Caseys at a birthday lunch and tensions are running high. You’d think they’d know all there is to know about one another by now, right? Wrong. There are weekends away, sprawling lunches, parties a week doesn’t go by where the Casey family don’t see one another. There are regular family get-togethers with Johnnie’s brothers, Ed and Liam, their wives Cara and Nell respectively and the brothers assorted children. They are a large and sprawling family, presided over by Johnnie and Jessie who own their own business and are, quite frankly, loaded. In Grown Ups she takes us deep into the heart of the Casey family and reveals them to us, layer by layer. Her latest book, Grown Ups, is another excellent book about family, relationships, love and the intricacies of modern life.
Marian Keyes is one of those writers that everybody has heard of, she has written a ridiculous number of bestselling books and is one of the warmest and most generous authors out there.
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