The Rachel Incident: ‘If you’ve ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did’ (Gabrielle Zevin) – the international bestseller
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The international bestseller: a hilarious, heartfelt story of all-consuming and unexpected love
‘If you’ve ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did’ – GABRIELLE ZEVIN, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
‘Funny, nostalgic, sexy’ MONICA HEISEY, author of Really Good, Actually
‘Easily 13/10 … Funny, lovely, romantic, drenched in nostalgia’ MARIAN KEYES
‘Hilarious, wise and wonderfully written’ GRAHAM NORTON
‘A stormer of a novel’ I NEWS
‘Sharply witty, warm-hearted and wise’ GUARDIAN
‘Deeply relatable and extremely funny’ OBSERVER
‘A headlong read about being young and hopelessly in lust’ SUNDAY TIMES
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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…
‘A deliciously complicated and very real romance with some refreshing twists. O’Donoghue captures all the intensity of messy young love’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘A book full of love, and it is extremely easy to love reading it’ VOGUE
‘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
‘Books by Irish women writers are hot these days, and this novel is on fire’ PEOPLE MAGAZINE, Book of the Week
‘Filled with humour and heart … You’ll gobble up The Rachel Incident in one bite’ DAILY EXPRESS
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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
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Additional information
| Publisher | Virago (22 Jun. 2023) |
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| Language | English |
| File size | 1692 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 318 pages |
by Dee
I absolutely love this book. The friendship between James and Rachel and the feeling of not leaving space for anyone else, is written so well. I love it. I just love it.
by Olivia French
This is one of the best books I’ve read this year! The writing is gorgeous and it captures so much of what it’s like to be young and in love and hopeless all at the same time. I’ve read Caroline O’Donoghue’s two previous books and enjoyed them, but this one was next level.
by Amazon Customer
As a Cork girl who left a Ireland in 2010, who graduated from UCC, and who spent the next 3 years in London and then elsewhere I resonated with this story so deeply it’s not even funny. Best think I’ve read in quite some time. Thank you Caroline ☺️
by Kindle Customer
So so enjoyed every minute of it. So nostalgic and written so beautifully. Couldn’t put it down from start to finish
by Sarah
I’ve been a huge fan of Caroline’s through her podcast Sentimental Garbage. It was one of the things that got me through a lockdown break-up of 2021 when Caroline was writing this book. I can now without a doubt say I am a fan of her writing too. Her ability to create a cosy and delicious world full of in-jokes that the reader can find comfort in is rare and fabulous. Rachel, the James’, Deenie and Dr Byrne are characters that will stick with me. I am now back with my Carey, so I’m finding this all very… a play. Keep them coming Caroline.
by CeeDee
Great story- brings me back to the days in Ireland pre Repeal , pre social media. Lovely tale of friendship and romance. The hidden relationships and the complexities of the tale bear out and leave a mark. Missed the book when I had finished – always a sign of a great read ! (What am I supposed to do with myself now?! ????)
by Lynne Benjamin
There was so much in this novel that I could identify with even though my own story is very different.
The balance of humour and painful experience is so well presented.
Thank you for writing it.
by Amazon Customer
I loved this book. I’ve been a follower of Caroline’s through her Sentimental Garbage podcast, and was so looking forward to the release of The Rachel Incident. I gobbled it up in a couple of sittings, which is the highest compliment as I have a full time job and three small children.
I, too, have a gay best friend called James who is fabulous and now lives in New York, and we also had what I can only describe as a ‘head-over-heels in friendship’ phase (funnily enough also in 2010), so Caroline’s writing made me ache for those heady days in our twenties where our duo was impenetrable and we felt invincible. It made me realise that this dynamic – straight female and gay male friendship – is rarely captured in fiction and yet was such a defining feature of my own history. Caroline does it beautifully – it’s nostalgic, so funny, and feels like we’re part of this secret little gang. Add to that a delicious, believable and addictive plot and well, I want to read it all again.
Can I also add that I really enjoyed the ‘This is very a play’ exchange – a little Easter egg for us die-hard ‘The McDougalls are coming for supper’ fans 😀