![]() ![]() ![]() Her ambivalent relationship with money is expressed in a needy compulsion to share her wealth with the wider family – generosity that borders on ostentation and yet signals a subtle attempt to control those around her, to position herself in the role of provider, while asserting her professional success. Tensions become apparent: Johnny feels emasculated Jessie suffers guilt about her superior financial position. Jessie is the successful owner of a grocery company, employing her husband, Johnny, who works alongside her. The key theme here is addiction in its various guises: to shopping, to food, to status and money. Over the past 20 years, Marian Keyes has built a reputation for breezy fiction that also tackles difficult and, at times, controversial subjects, and Grown Ups is no exception. But beneath the surface, resentments fester and when Cara attends a family dinner after suffering from concussion, secrets emerge that threaten to expose the weakness of the threads that bind them. Brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam seem close in spite of their different personalities, while their wives – Jessie, Cara and Nell – appear to get along well. T he Caseys are a sprawling Irish family who gather at every possible opportunity: anniversaries, birthdays and holidays. ![]()
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