"This book truly surprised me by how much i loved it, and i feel better for having read it."
The Rachel Incident takes place mostly from 2009-2011, in Cork, Ireland, but it’s told from the perspective of modern day Rachel looking back on her life with the wisdom of someone who lived it, rather than someone currently living in it. I thought this was a genius way to tell this story. When you’re young, you don’t think of anything you’re doing as wrong or right — only as a means to an end. Rachel had reached the ‘end’ that justified the means, and as she’s now in her mid-thirties, she has to come to terms that perhaps they weren’t justified at all. at the center of this love story are James and Rachel, two fast, fierce friends who meet while Rachel is working at a bookshop in Cork getting her degree. one tumbles into a tortured love affair with an English professor, which eventually spirals out of their control and ends up affecting the rest of both of their lives. in the middle of all of this they’re going out, they’re growing closer, and they’re planning to move to London, to escape the recession creeping in on Ireland. whatever you think this book will be, i can promise you it’s likely the exact opposite. it’s not perfect, and it’s not always an easy read, but it’s beautiful and i think very important for anyone feeling very young and very lost.
The Rachel Incident takes place mostly from 2009-2011, in Cork, Ireland, but it’s told from the perspective of modern day Rachel looking back on her life with the wisdom of someone who lived it, rather than someone currently living in it. I thought this was a genius way to tell this story. When you’re young, you don’t think of anything you’re doing as wrong or right — only as a means to an end. Rachel had reached the ‘end’ that justified the means, and as she’s now in her mid-thirties, she has to come to terms that perhaps they weren’t justified at all. at the center of this love story are James and Rachel, two fast, fierce friends who meet while Rachel is working at a bookshop in Cork getting her degree. one tumbles into a tortured love affair with an English professor, which eventually spirals out of their control and ends up affecting the rest of both of their lives. in the middle of all of this they’re going out, they’re growing closer, and they’re planning to move to London, to escape the recession creeping in on Ireland. whatever you think this book will be, i can promise you it’s likely the exact opposite. it’s not perfect, and it’s not always an easy read, but it’s beautiful and i think very important for anyone feeling very young and very lost.
The Rachel Incident takes place mostly from 2009-2011, in Cork, Ireland, but it’s told from the perspective of modern day Rachel looking back on her life with the wisdom of someone who lived it, rather than someone currently living in it. I thought this was a genius way to tell this story. When you’re young, you don’t think of anything you’re doing as wrong or right — only as a means to an end. Rachel had reached the ‘end’ that justified the means, and as she’s now in her mid-thirties, she has to come to terms that perhaps they weren’t justified at all. at the center of this love story are James and Rachel, two fast, fierce friends who meet while Rachel is working at a bookshop in Cork getting her degree. one tumbles into a tortured love affair with an English professor, which eventually spirals out of their control and ends up affecting the rest of both of their lives. in the middle of all of this they’re going out, they’re growing closer, and they’re planning to move to London, to escape the recession creeping in on Ireland. whatever you think this book will be, i can promise you it’s likely the exact opposite. it’s not perfect, and it’s not always an easy read, but it’s beautiful and i think very important for anyone feeling very young and very lost.
The Rachel Incident takes place mostly from 2009-2011, in Cork, Ireland, but it’s told from the perspective of modern day Rachel looking back on her life with the wisdom of someone who lived it, rather than someone currently living in it. I thought this was a genius way to tell this story. When you’re young, you don’t think of anything you’re doing as wrong or right — only as a means to an end. Rachel had reached the ‘end’ that justified the means, and as she’s now in her mid-thirties, she has to come to terms that perhaps they weren’t justified at all. at the center of this love story are James and Rachel, two fast, fierce friends who meet while Rachel is working at a bookshop in Cork getting her degree. one tumbles into a tortured love affair with an English professor, which eventually spirals out of their control and ends up affecting the rest of both of their lives. in the middle of all of this they’re going out, they’re growing closer, and they’re planning to move to London, to escape the recession creeping in on Ireland. whatever you think this book will be, i can promise you it’s likely the exact opposite. it’s not perfect, and it’s not always an easy read, but it’s beautiful and i think very important for anyone feeling very young and very lost.
The Rachel Incident takes place mostly from 2009-2011, in Cork, Ireland, but it’s told from the perspective of modern day Rachel looking back on her life with the wisdom of someone who lived it, rather than someone currently living in it. I thought this was a genius way to tell this story. When you’re young, you don’t think of anything you’re doing as wrong or right — only as a means to an end. Rachel had reached the ‘end’ that justified the means, and as she’s now in her mid-thirties, she has to come to terms that perhaps they weren’t justified at all. at the center of this love story are James and Rachel, two fast, fierce friends who meet while Rachel is working at a bookshop in Cork getting her degree. one tumbles into a tortured love affair with an English professor, which eventually spirals out of their control and ends up affecting the rest of both of their lives. in the middle of all of this they’re going out, they’re growing closer, and they’re planning to move to London, to escape the recession creeping in on Ireland. whatever you think this book will be, i can promise you it’s likely the exact opposite. it’s not perfect, and it’s not always an easy read, but it’s beautiful and i think very important for anyone feeling very young and very lost.
The Rachel Incident takes place mostly from 2009-2011, in Cork, Ireland, but it’s told from the perspective of modern day Rachel looking back on her life with the wisdom of someone who lived it, rather than someone currently living in it. I thought this was a genius way to tell this story. When you’re young, you don’t think of anything you’re doing as wrong or right — only as a means to an end. Rachel had reached the ‘end’ that justified the means, and as she’s now in her mid-thirties, she has to come to terms that perhaps they weren’t justified at all. at the center of this love story are James and Rachel, two fast, fierce friends who meet while Rachel is working at a bookshop in Cork getting her degree. one tumbles into a tortured love affair with an English professor, which eventually spirals out of their control and ends up affecting the rest of both of their lives. in the middle of all of this they’re going out, they’re growing closer, and they’re planning to move to London, to escape the recession creeping in on Ireland. whatever you think this book will be, i can promise you it’s likely the exact opposite. it’s not perfect, and it’s not always an easy read, but it’s beautiful and i think very important for anyone feeling very young and very lost.
What is the book about?
Romance
Romance
Romance
Romance
Romance
Romance
Self-discovery
Self-discovery
Self-discovery
Self-discovery
Self-discovery
Self-discovery
Friendship
Friendship
Friendship
Friendship
Friendship
Friendship
Rachel 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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Emily
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For every book purchased through this page, we receive 20% of the profit, which supports London Girls Book Club—funding events, coordinators, and everything that makes LGBC special.
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