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Rachel Incident

O'Donoghue, Caroline

$37.99

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The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story. But it’s not the one you expected.


2023’s most anticipated summer read

‘Funny, LOVELY, romantic, DRENCHED in nostalgia’ MARIAN KEYES

‘You will love The Rachel Incident’ GABRIELLE ZEVIN, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow


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…

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Early readers are falling in love with The Rachel Incident:

‘A triumph of a novel’ *****

‘Extremely witty, charming and humorous’ *****

‘Her best book yet – this is going to be huge’ *****

‘Perfection. I want to delete it from my brain so I can read it for the first time again’ *****

‘Delightfully addictive’ *****



‘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

Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Imprint: Virago UK
Publication date: 22/06/2023

Staff review

The Rachel Incident
by Caroline O’Donoghue
Review by Ray
I inhaled this delightful, smart, familiar novel about the intensity of early adulthood friendships and relationships, set against the background of recession, abortion reform and changing attitudes to LGBT+ communities in 2009/10 Ireland. These charming, funny, sometimes unhinged characters are beautifully captured, and the heavy themes are present and fully explored but never over-bearing. This is a sharp, satisfying and big-hearted read.

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