The Rachel Incident
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4.0 • 10 Ratings
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- €7.99
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*2023's MOST ANTICIPATED SUMMER READ*
'You will love The Rachel Incident' GABRIELLE ZEVIN, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
'Funny, lovely, romantic, drenched in nostalgia' MARIAN KEYES
The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story. But it's not the one you're expecting. It's unconventional and messy. It's young and foolish. It's about losing and finding yourself. But it is always about love.
When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr Byrne, her best friend James helps her devise a plan to seduce him. But what begins as a harmless crush soon pushes their friendship to its limits. Over the course of a year they will find their lives ever more entwined with the Byrnes' and be faced with impossible choices and a lie that can't be taken back...
'Perfectly captures the intensity and high and lows of first love, and it's also very, very funny' RED MAGAZINE
'Chaos at its finest' STYLIST
Early readers are falling in love with The Rachel Incident:
'Her best book yet - this is going to be huge' READER REVIEW
'A triumph of a novel' READER REVIEW
'Extremely witty, charming and humorous' READER REVIEW
'Perfection. I want to delete it from my brain so I can read it for the first time again' READER REVIEW
'Delightfully addictive' READER REVIEW
'Big-hearted, witty and expertly crafted' - SLOANE CROSLEY, author of Cult Classic
'Hilarious' - ANNIE LORD, author of Notes on Heartbreak
'Funny, poignant, heart-breaking' - BARBARA TRAPIDO, author of Brother of the More Famous Jack
'I really loved this book' - EMER MCLYSAGHT, author of Oh My God What a Complete Aisling
'Absorbing and funny and honest and horny' LIZZIE HUXLEY-JONES, author of Make You Mine This Christmas
THE RACHEL INCIDENT by Caroline O'Donoghue is a sharp, poignant and beautifully told story of losing yourself, finding yourself and the lengths we will go to for those we love.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Cork circa 2010: Rachel and James meet and immediately fall deeply, completely into passionate but platonic love, differences of class, opportunity and sexual orientation notwithstanding. Their friendship feels destined to last forever, but Rachel’s literature professor interrupts their blissfully chaotic existence and changes the course of all their lives, in increasingly unexpected ways. As genuinely hilarious and often uncomfortably astute as O’Donoghue’s writing is, the specifics of time and place make this much more than an entertaining account of the particular thrills, confusion and uncertainty of early-twentysomething life. There’s also a simmering, justifiably bitter anger at an Ireland that still ruthlessly suppressed women’s bodily autonomy and punished every limited choice available, leaving scars that may fade, but will never fully disappear. Acerbic, witty and empathetic in equal measure, this is a thoroughly invigorating read.
