The Rachel Incident
Books | Fiction / Coming of Age
4.6
Caroline O'Donoghue
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three • “O'Donoghue deepens the familiar coming-of-age premise with riveting moral complications." —People"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 TomorrowRachel 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.
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More Details:
Author
Caroline O'Donoghue
Pages
304
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2023-06-27
ISBN
0593535715 9780593535714
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"At first I was unsure about this book but I quickly got on board! I fell in love with Rachel, James and the rest of the characters with their imperfections. This novel told a wonderful story and I am happy I stuck with it!"
Skye Edelson-Bennett
"Strong writing, magically poetic. Very immersive story. Pulls you in and won’t let go till the last page. Love, friendship, ruined relationships, happy endings. It’s one of these stories that makes you wanna cry and laugh over and over. "
Jennifer Quinney
"Loved the story!"
Grace Z
"Did not finish. I was so excited to check this book out from the library, because it sounded delightful. Except it’s anything but…I found the narrator to be quite boring with not a lot of forward moving direction. Honestly, it was a bit like watching beige paint dry. Maybe it gets better as it goes along, but why force myself to read something that doesn’t resonate or interest me in the first 100 pages. I mean, I would not keep going on ****** dates to force a relationship, so why would I try to force myself to read a book that’s akin paint drying?
And this says a lot, because even I try to slug my way through most books in hope of finding something redeeming."
Kath A Rina FritzLer
"The kind of book that makes you feel understood in the way that only a best friend can. "
Bailey Coleman
"Oh well this absolutely slapped, what else can I say, I read it all in one sitting not because of the plot but because I wanted to live in the vibe of this book. It's not, like, comforting...just consuming."
kelsey
"4.5*<br/>This book didn't really have a plot but it was very readable. I found it funny and charming with likeable characters.<br/>I loved reading about Rachel's messy and fun early 20's and rooting for her to win in life<br/>"
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