Author(s): Caroline O'Donoghue

Fiction A-Z

"***The hilarious and heartbreaking new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of PROMISING YOUNG WOMEN and SCENES OF A GRAPHIC NATURE*** 'If you've ever built your life and your personality around a friend; 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, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 'A transportive joy, a superhighway to young friendship. Big-hearted, witty and expertly crafted' - SLOANE CROSLEY, author of Cult Classic 'I didn't know books could be this hilarious' - ANNIE LORD, author of Notes on Heartbreak 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... 'A book I took to my heart ... funny, poignant, heart-breaking' - BARBARA TRAPIDO, author of Brother of the More Famous Jack 'I really loved this book' - EMER MCLYSAGHT, author of Oh My God What a Complete Aisling 'I can't explain the sheer unadulterated glee of reading this. It's so good and absorbing and funny and honest and horny. And when I finished, I was bereft' LIZZIE HUXLEY-JONES, author of Make You Mine This Christmas"