The Rachel Incident
By Caroline ODonoghue

The international bestseller: a hilarious, heartfelt story of all-consuming and unexpected love'I loved it'and COCO MELLORS'If you've ever been young, you will loveand The Rachel Incidentand like I did'and GABRIELLE ZEVIN'Funny, nostalgic, sexy'and MONICA HEISEY'Hilarious, wise and wonderfully written'and GRAHAM NORTON'Easily 13/10 . . . Funny, lovely, romantic'and MARIAN KEYES'I loved it ... had me reading with my hand over my heart'and TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER____________________________________________________________________________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.____________________________________________________________________________Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and a TikTok Book Award -and Book of the Year (UK andamp; Ireland)'Reading it is like hearing your funniest, sexiest friend tell you the best story they know'and KATHERINE RUNDELL'Sharply witty, warm-hearted and wise'and GUARDIAN'O'Donoghue captures all the intensity of messy young love'and MAIL ON SUNDAY'A book full of love, and it is extremely easy to love reading it'and VOGUE'Chaos at its finest'and STYLISTThe Rachel Incidentand was a #2 bestseller in Ireland in June 2023