My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes is the seventh book in the Walsh family series. These are not small books - this book is over 400 pages. I think the first book by Keyes that I picked up was before heading on vacation with the plan of one or two big books and not five relatively smaller books.
The Walsh family is a large and busy Irish family. They like to all get involved in each other's lives and drama - quite often they create drama. Each book focuses on a different family member and this one is Anna. Anna has gone through tragedy years ago when her husband tragically died in a car accident but years later life is looking good for Anna. She has an amazing PR job in New York with a feathery stroker boyfriend. But then 2020 hits, Anna starts perimenopause, and basically is homesick for Ireland and her family. In a rash decision she leaves her job and breaks up with her boyfriend and moves back home. Without a plan for money or her future the first few months feel glum. When one of her sister's friends is in crisis with a business they are trying to get running Anna finally finds a purpose. Unfortunately, it involves a guy from her past Narky Joe. Together they navigate helping this business giving the family one less worry. Everything will work out if Anna could just find a doctor to give her some HRT medicine.
This book isn't a quick read - at least not for me. It took me a bit to get into it and then read the last 200 pages in a day. It's also filled with some Irish words and phrases that I sometimes didn't understand but for me it certainly didn't take away from the story. I think I've always had a bit of a fondness for Irish authors. If I'd had a girl I would have liked to name her Maeve after Maeve Binchy. In fact I would say Marian Keyes books are for fans of Binchy's novels. I might also call Marian Keyes the Irish Sophie Kinsella.