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BOOK SYNOPSIS

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

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.

RECOMMENDED FOR: Grown-Ups

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ADDITIONAL DETAILS:

Publisher: Hardcover: Alfred A. Knopf / Paperback: Vintage

Publish Date: Hardcover: June 27, 2023 / Paperback: May 28, 2024

Pages: 304

Dimensions: Hardcover: 9.6 X 6.5 X 1.1 inches | 1.2 pounds / Paperback: 8.0 X 5.2 X 0.6 inches | 0.5 pounds

Language: English

Type: Hardcover or Paperback

Condition: NEW

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