More about the book
A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all threeRachel 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.
Book purchase
The Rachel Incident, Caroline O. Donoghue
- Language
- Released
- 2023
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Paperback)
Payment methods
We’re missing your review here.
- Title
- The Rachel Incident
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Caroline O. Donoghue
- Publisher
- DIVERSIFIED PUB
- Released
- 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0593827325
- ISBN13
- 9780593827321
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Love, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, Contemporary Romance, LGBTQ+, England, Great Britain, Coming Of Age, LGBTQ+ Romance, London, Young Adult Romance, Ireland, Teens, Studying, Irish Literature, Homosexuality, Searching for Oneself, Addiction, Abortion
- First published
- 2023
- Original title
- The Rachel Incident
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all threeRachel 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.