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Rachel's Holiday
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  • Published: 30 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9781405950541
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 640
  • RRP: $28.00
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Rachel's Holiday

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30 Nov 2021
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2 Mar 1998
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The no. 1 bestseller's most beloved character is back, in a stunning reissue edition

'How did it end up like this? Twenty-seven, unemployed, mistaken for a drug addict, in a treatment centre in the back arse of nowhere with an empty Valium bottle in my knickers . . .'

Meet Rachel Walsh. She has a pair of size 8 feet and such a fondness for recreational drugs that her family has forked out the cash for a spell in Cloisters - Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She's only agreed to her incarceration because she's heard that rehab is wall-to-wall jacuzzis, gymnasiums and rock stars going tepid turkey - and it's about time she had a holiday.

But what Rachel doesn't count on are the toe-curling embarrassments heaped on her by family and group therapy, the dearth of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll - and missing Luke, her ex. What kind of a new start in life is this?
  • Published: 30 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9781405950541
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 640
  • RRP: $28.00
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About the author

Marian Keyes

Marian Keyes is a phenomenon. The multimillion copy, internationally bestselling author of some of the most widely loved, genre-defying novels of the past thirty years – including Rachel’s Holiday, Anybody Out There and Grown Ups – has millions of devoted readers around the world. In addition to her fifteen previous novels, Marian has also written three collections of journalism, upon which hit BBC Radio 4 show Between Ourselves was based. Marian co-hosts the popular show Now You’re Asking with actress Tara Flynn for BBC Radio 4. In 2022, she was named the British Book Awards Author of the Year. Marian lives in Dublin.
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Praise for Rachel's Holiday

Deliciously dark and fantastically funny, Rachel's Holiday is the story of a young woman living life rather too well until the day she takes it too far endangering everything she cares about . . .

from the publisher's description

Keyes has given us another rollicking good read, guarantee to make you snort into your cocktail

Mumsnet, Best Summer Reads

It's full of LOLs, but also delivers a sucker-punch of emotion - a proper comfort-blanket book

Claire Frost, Fabulous magazine

Rachel's appeal as a heroine is instant and irresistible. What begins as a pitch-perfect, bitingly funny romantic comedy quickly becomes dark, profound, heartbreaking . . . and then light again. Keyes's comic gift is always evident, and the prose itself is propulsive

Independent

One of the funniest novels I've ever read

Jill Mansell, Good Housekeeping

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