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The Rachel Incident

A novel

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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 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.
Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Littérature et fiction Récits initiatiques Fiction Spirituel Drôle
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Loved the characters and the world of this book. The narrator brings it all life. Will listen again! One of the best books I’ve read in a long time.

Deeply complex, heartfelt and funny.

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A great listen, highly recommended if you enjoyed Sally Rooney (but I’d say this is more accessible and funny)

Loved it

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I loved the human side of this story, the characters and unpredictably. The narrator had a perfect voice.
One of my favourite audiobooks this year alongside Eleanor Oliphant is just fine.

Loved it

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such a great book! I really enjoyed how it probed hot button issues without being heavy-handed. The narrators accent was beautiful and made me enjoy the story even more.

Perfection!

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There is a realness in the writing that makes this book stick to your bones long beyond finishing it. Rachel and both Jameses are characters that you can dare to dislike in moments because they are so loveable and so realistic. Haven't we all had those relationships that exist between unspoken boundaries? The narrator was the perfect choice, too. Hope to see more come from the author. Shelving it next to "Normal People" as an overall favourite.

raw and remarkable

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