The Rachel Incident: Discover 2023's most anticipated summer read - a hilarious, heartfelt story of unexpected love from the bestselling author
✍ Scribed by Caroline O'Donoghue
- Book ID
- 111747297
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780593535707
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✦ Synopsis
A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three
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.