Sushi for Beginners

Jan 12, 2026 4:17 AM

Author:Marian Keyes

Sushi for Beginners

*** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022***

Dive into the blissfully funny No. 1 bestseller about three women who find themselves criss-crossing the line between success and failure, happiness and sadness, sanity and madness, from the No. 1 bestselling author of Grown Ups

'Totally addictive . . . a real page turner' SUNDAY EXPRESS

'Brilliantly written and fabulously well-observed' INDEPENDENT

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'Dammit,' she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown.'

Lisa Edwards' career as a hot-shot magazine editor is destined for high-rise New York, when suddenly she's blown off-course into the delights of low-rise Dublin. But what on earth can she do about it?

Ashling Kennedy, Lisa's super-organized assistant, is good at worrying. Too good. She's even terrified of a little bit of raw fish . . .

Clodagh Kelly is Ashling's best friend and has done everything right: beautiful kids and a husband come prince - everything in fact that Ashling has ever wanted. She should be happy. But she isn't.

Three women on the verge of happiness and even closer to a complete breakdown . . .

Which way will they fall?

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'Keyes has given romantic comedy a much-needed face-lift. Chatty and warmhearted, Keyes's talent is to tell it how it is' Independent

'Laden with plots twists, jokey asides and nicely turned bits of zeitgeisty observational humour' Guardian

'The voice of a generation' Daily Mirror

Winner of 'Author of the Year' at the British Book Awards May 2022

Reviews

Marian Keyes' Sushi for Beginners is the blissfully funny, smart tale of three women who discover that the line between success and failure, happiness and sadness, sanity and madness is finer than they ever thought . . .

'Dammit,' she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown.'

—— from the publisher's description

Classic Keyes. Constantly surprising, gloriously entertaining, and has a dark underbite that makes it irresistible

—— The Pool

Nails the joy and pain of the working world . . . a brilliantly written and fabulously well-observed romantic comedy

—— Independent

Should come with a health warning. It's totally addictive . . . a real page turner

—— Sunday Express

Chatty and warmhearted, Keyes's talent is to tell it how it is

—— Independent

Our funniest living novelist

—— Daily Telegraph

Reaches a transcendental realm of its own. I couldn't even read it at times, because I was crying and choking with laughter

—— Daily Express

Sharpe is the funniest novelist currently writing ... I sat curled up with laughter

—— Time Out

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