Description: A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR - A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three "If you've ever been unsure what to do with your degree in English; if you've ever wondered when the rug-buying part of your life will start...if you've ever loved the wrong person, or the right person at the wrong time...In short, if you've ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did." --Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two Book and Mortar Record Store The Rachel Incident -- Caroline O'Donoghue A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR - A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three "If you've ever been unsure what to do with your degree in English; if you've ever wondered when the rug-buying part of your life will start...if you've ever loved the wrong person, or the right person at the wrong time...In short, if you've ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did." --Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them. When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred's glamorous, well-connected, bourgeois wife. Aching with unrequited love, shot through with delicious, sparkling humor, The Rachel Incident is a triumph. Author: Caroline O'Donoghue Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Published: 06/27/2023 Pages: 304 Binding Type: Hardcover Weight: 1.20lbs Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.20d ISBN: 9780593535707 Review Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2023 Publishers Weekly 04/24/2023 Booklist 05/15/2023 pg. 18 About the Author CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE is the New York Times best-selling author of All Our Hidden Gifts, her YA debut fantasy, which has been published in more than twenty territories around the world. She has written for The Times and The Guardian, and is the host of an award-winning podcast, Sentimental Garbage. She was born in Ireland and lives in London. The Rachel Incident is her first adult novel to be published in the U.S.
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Book Title: Rachel Incident : a Novel
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: Lgbt / Gay, Literary, Coming of Age
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 18.8 Oz
Item Length: 9.6 in
Author: Caroline O'donoghue
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
