{"product_id":"rachel-incident-caroline-odonoghue-hc-2023-literary-fiction-contemporary-romance-1","title":"Rachel Incident by Caroline ODonoghue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“O'Donoghue deepens the familiar coming-of-age premise with riveting moral complications.\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePeople\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Rachel Incident\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e like I did.” —Gabrielle Zevin, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e best-selling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Rachel Incident\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a triumph.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pearl Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46215656014021,"sku":"S20426001","price":25.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/7660\/8453\/files\/s-l1600_14bc9b99-26b6-4c9d-9a1c-6f97851da978.webp?v=1780642503","url":"https:\/\/pearlpress.com.au\/products\/rachel-incident-caroline-odonoghue-hc-2023-literary-fiction-contemporary-romance-1","provider":"Pearl Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}