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Author Marian Keyes celebrates being sober for 30 years, saying 'if I'd kept drinking, I'd probably be dead by now'


She wrote a best-selling novel about a woman becoming sober. And now, two decades after releasing Rachel's Holiday, Irish author Marian Keyes is celebrating 30 years of being teetotal herself.

And now, two decades after releasing Rachel's Holiday, Irish author Marian Keyes is celebrating 30 years of being teetotal herself. The broadcaster and author, pictured below, went to rehab for her alcoholism in January 1994 after a suicide attempt when she was 30, and she has not had a drink since. Her post was flooded with comments from the likes of Elizabeth Day, who wrote How To Fail, and Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You, thanking and congratulating Ms Keyes.

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