Dr Maria Butler is a postdoctoral researcher at Maynooth University and a researcher and writer specialising in women’s writing, commercial fiction and popular literature. She was previously a researcher at UCD and Curatorial Advisor for the Museum of Literature Ireland’s exhibition on Irish romance fiction. Her new book, Marian Keyes and the Politics of Commercial Fiction, explores the literary and cultural significance of one of Ireland’s best-known authors and asks us to look differently at the books millions of readers have loved.
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