Marian Keyes: 'Books have one shot to impress me and if you miss, you miss'

The Irish author on the allure of Elizabeth Jane Howard, the brilliance of Bernardine Evaristo - and why she won't be revisiting Philip Roth My earliest readingmemoryAged about six, in bed,consumed by myfirst Enid Blyton, TheTwins at St Clare's, my dad at the door telling me to turn off thelight and go to sleep. I tried to carry on reading in the dark because leaving that fictional world and reconnecting with the real one was too much ofa wrench. Without adoubt, reading was myfirst addiction. Th...