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The Rachel Incident

By: Caroline O'Donoghue
Narrated by: Clara Harte
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*2023's MOST ANTICIPATED SUMMER READ*

'You will love The Rachel Incident' GABRIELLE ZEVIN, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

'Funny, lovely, romantic, drenched in nostalgia' MARIAN KEYES

The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story. But it's not the one you're expecting. It's unconventional and messy. It's young and foolish. It's about losing and finding yourself. But it is always about love.

When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr Byrne, her best friend James helps her devise a plan to seduce him. But what begins as a harmless crush soon pushes their friendship to its limits. Over the course of a year they will find their lives ever more entwined with the Byrnes' and be faced with impossible choices and a lie that can't be taken back...

'Perfectly captures the intensity and high and lows of first love, and it's also very, very funny' RED MAGAZINE

'Chaos at its finest' STYLIST

THE RACHEL INCIDENT by Caroline O'Donoghue is a sharp, poignant and beautifully told story of losing yourself, finding yourself and the lengths we will go to for those we love.

©2023 Caroline O'Donoghue (P)2023 W. F. Howes Ltd Coming of Age Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Fiction Feel-Good Heartfelt Witty Romance

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This was a great book, well written in a frank, honest, funny and absolutely believable way. I think everyone can relate to the topics dealt with in the book. It is subjective to a space, place and time & I thoroughly enjoyed it. I’m 60 I’ve passed it on the my 25yr old daughter she’s loving it. Loved the narrator too.

Great plausible story told in the vernacular - loved Ito

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This has everything - nostalgia, heartbreak, love, friendship. I loved it all, beautiful story with fabulous narrator.

Excellent.

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Really enjoyed it early on, then it felt like it was starting to lose pace and one point I wondered where it was going or if there was any real momentum to the story at all, but it picked up again and I found the ending more satisfying than I had imagined that I could. Narration was spot on. Overall would recommend.

Satisfying

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It’s was an okay read - kept me reading and characters were well scripted but it was a bit slow

The characters

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Absolutely loved this story about friendship and love, took me straight back to the early 2000s. the narration was beautiful. So sad that it’s finished!

Beautiful

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