Your cart

Close

Total AUD

Checkout

Imprint

  • Virago
  • Virago
  • Virago

The Rachel Incident: The international bestseller - 'Funny, nostalgic, sexy' (Monica Heisey)

Caroline O'Donoghue

5 Reviews

Rated 0

Ireland, Of specific Gay interest, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Romance

An international bestseller: the hilarious, heartfelt story of unexpected love

The international bestseller: a hilarious, heartfelt story of all-consuming and unexpected love


Shortlisted for a TikTok Book Award - Book of the Year (UK and Ireland)

Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

'If you've ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did' GABRIELLE ZEVIN

'Funny, nostalgic, sexy' MONICA HEISEY

'Hilarious, wise and wonderfully written' GRAHAM NORTON

____________________________________________________________________________

Everyone in Cork remembers the Rachel Incident. But what really happened? It's simple. It's complicated. It's about love, sex and friendship. It's definitely about betrayal. And, above all, it's the story of Rachel and James, two twenty-somethings who met at a bookshop, became best friends, and spent one unforgettable year screwing up and growing up.

____________________________________________________________________________

'I adored it' COCO MELLORS

'Reading it is like hearing your funniest, sexiest friend tell you the best story they know' KATHERINE RUNDELL

'Sharply witty, warm-hearted and wise' GUARDIAN

'
O'Donoghue captures all the intensity of messy young love' MAIL ON SUNDAY

'A book full of love, and it is extremely easy to love reading it' VOGUE

'Chaos at its finest' STYLIST

'Easily 13/10 . . . Funny, lovely, romantic' MARIAN KEYES

The Rachel Incident was a #2 bestseller in Ireland in June 2023

Read More Read Less

Praise for The Rachel Incident: The international bestseller - 'Funny, nostalgic, sexy' (Monica Heisey)

  • A book full of love, and it is extremely easy to love reading it - Vogue

  • Endlessly entertaining - Irish Independent

  • Sometimes the most passionate love stories are platonic. As sharply witty as it is warm-hearted and wise - Guardian, Best Summer Reads

  • Deeply relatable and extremely funny - Eva Wiseman, Observer

  • Books by Irish women writers are hot these days, and this novel is on fire - People Magazine, Book of the Week

Read More Read Less

Discover more

Left
loading...

What to Read as a 20-Something

Right
Left
loading...

What to Read as a 20-Something

Right

Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue is a New York Times best-selling author and the host of the award-winning podcast Sentimental Garbage. She has written two previous novels for adults, Promising Young Women and Scenes of a Graphic Nature. She has also written the best-selling supernatural series for teenagers, All Our Hidden Gifts. She was born in Ireland and currently lives in London.

This website uses cookies. Using this website means you are okay with this but you can find out more and learn how to manage your cookie choices here.Close cookie policy overlay