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Ordinary life zings with destructive potential.

Characters are always at risk of taking a wrong turn. But even without that, the ominous sceptre of life’s pitfalls looms large. We know from the outset that something dreadful is going to split the group because of a prologue where the normally affable Cara gets concussion and the secrets start tumbling out. “Seriously, I get on my own nerves, but I’m not doing it to be sneery.” Marian Keyes tackles everything from bulimia to the decline of capitalism and the Syrian refugee crisis in Grown Ups (Photo: Dean Chalkley) And there is Liam, a former running champ, on to his second, younger – and very woke – wife Nell, whose earnest attempts to save the planet by buying only second-hand clothes and refusing to procreate are, in Keyes’ hands, somehow cute and not in the least annoying. There is kind Ed, whose wife Cara hates her body and for whom dieting is a Sisyphean battle. There is “maybe-ever-so-slightly slippery Johnny”, the charmer and eldest brother, who is married to Jessie (who used to be married to his late best friend Rory, something he’d like to forget, but which his stepson won’t allow).