{"product_id":"the-rachel-incident-paperback","title":"The Rachel Incident - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCaroline O'Donoghue\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003eA \u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003eA brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"O'Donoghue deepens the familiar coming-of-age premise with riveting moral complications.\" --\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003ci\u003eThe Rachel Incident\u003c\/i\u003e like I did.\" --Gabrielle Zevin, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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, \u003ci\u003eThe Rachel Incident\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAROLINE O'DONOGHUE is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebest-selling author of \u003ci\u003eAll Our Hidden Gifts, \u003c\/i\u003e her YA debut fantasy, which has been published in more than twenty territories around the world. She has written for \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Guardian, \u003c\/i\u003e and is the host of an award-winning podcast, Sentimental Garbage. She was born in Ireland and lives in London. \u003ci\u003eThe Rachel Incident\u003c\/i\u003e is her first adult novel to be published in the U.S.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987658146093,"sku":"9780593469446","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/ivpbkHMatw9780593469446.webp?v=1776183295","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-rachel-incident-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}