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The Rachel Incident

The hilarious bestseller about unexpected love, shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards - Book of the Year (UK & Ireland)
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The international bestseller: a hilarious, heartfelt story of all-consuming and unexpected love Shortlisted for a TikTok Book Award - Book of the Year (UK and Ireland) Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction If you've ever been young, you will love The Rachel... Read More
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The Rachel Incident

An international bestseller: the hilarious, heartfelt story of unexpected love

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The international bestseller: a hilarious, heartfelt story of all-consuming and unexpected love

Shortlisted for a TikTok Book Award - Book of the Year (UK and Ireland)

Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

If you've ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did - GABRIELLE ZEVIN

Funny, nostalgic, sexy - MONICA HEISEY

Hilarious, wise and wonderfully written - GRAHAM NORTON


Everyone in Cork remembers the Rachel Incident. But what really happened? It's simple. It's complicated. It's about love, sex and friendship. It's definitely about betrayal. And, above all, it's the story of Rachel and James, two twenty-somethings who met at a bookshop, became best friends, and spent one unforgettable year screwing up and growing up.


I adored it - COCO MELLORS

Reading it is like hearing your funniest, sexiest friend tell you the best story they know - KATHERINE RUNDELL

Sharply witty, warm-hearted and wise - GUARDIAN

O'Donoghue captures all the intensity of messy young love - MAIL ON SUNDAY

A book full of love, and it is extremely easy to love reading it - VOGUE

Chaos at its finest - STYLIST

Easily 13/10... Funny, lovely, romantic - MARIAN KEYES

The Rachel Incident was a #2 bestseller in Ireland in June 2023.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349013565

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 June 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 260g

Pages: 320

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Matt S.

A very entertaining walk through the years of youth. It has an interesting focus on friendship dynamics opposed to the usual romantic relationships typical of this genre. Emotional but not too heavy - a great read!

About the Author

Caroline O'Donoghue is a New York Times best-selling author and the host of the award-winning podcast Sentimental Garbage. She has written two previous novels for adults, Promising Young Women and Scenes of a Graphic Nature. She has also written the best-selling supernatural series for teenagers, All Our Hidden Gifts. She was born in Ireland and currently lives in London.

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