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A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all threeRachel 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.
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The Rachel Incident, Caroline O. Donoghue
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2023
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- Titul
- The Rachel Incident
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Caroline O. Donoghue
- Vydavatel
- DIVERSIFIED PUB
- Rok vydání
- 2023
- Vazba
- měkká
- ISBN10
- 0593827325
- ISBN13
- 9780593827321
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Romantika, Láska, Současná literatura, Přátelství, Současná romantika, LGBTQ+, Anglie, Velká Británie, Dospívání, LGBTQ+ romantika, Londýn, Young Adult romantika, Irsko, Mládež, Studium, Irská literatura, Homosexualita, Hledání sama sebe, Závislost, Potrat
- První vydání
- 2023
- Původní název
- The Rachel Incident
- Hodnocení
- 4,05 z 5
- Anotace
- A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all threeRachel 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.