If you’ve read Grown Ups, Marian Keyes’ 17th novel, you’ll know exactly where the bestselling author is when I speak to her over Zoom one sunny April morning.

“In the first chapter of that book they’re all away at a hotel,” she says excitedly, when I tell her I’m a huge fan of hers, and that book in particular. “And that’s where I am!” She pivots the camera so I can see the room she is in. “My family and I come here every year, just like the family in the book.”