Marian Keyes, author of many novels, has written on her blog that she has finished her current novel The Brightest Star in the Sky: “Right, so listen, like I said, I’ve finished The Brightest Star in the Sky and I’m really really thrilled with it and I don’t think I’ve ever said that before about anything I’ve written. It just worked out so lovely, it’s a very sweet book, I mean, obviously being me and the melancholic miseryguts I am, there is some darkness at the heart of it, but I have to say, there’s an overall lightness to it, an upbeat, hopeful feel. Yes, in all fairness, I’m proud of it and I hope you’ll enjoy it. It’ll start coming out in October – first publication is in Ireland and then UK, Australia, New Zealand, then it won’t be until the new year in US and Canada, then the translated versions depend on how long the translating takes. So I say I’m finished, but I’m not really. It’ll go to the copyeditor and she’ll come back with a million queries, then I’ll go into a slump, then I’ll come out of the slump and do the changes, then there will be more, then eventually it’ll be typeset and Himself and myself will proofread till black dots are dancing in front of our eyes and we can’t walk straight, then finally, FINALLY, it’ll be done and then I’ll wake in the middle of the night, gripped with the horrors, that this book is utter shite and that the printing presses must be stopped IMMEDIATELY, then Himself will yell, ‘You always do this! Pull yourself together for the love of God!”

Taken from her blog here. Marian says it’ll be out in October. No word on a cover or synopsis yet.

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