01759cam a2200313 i 4500 873098483 TxAuBib 20230627120000.0 230215s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023005907 9780593535707 hardcover 0593535707 hardcover TxAuBib rda O'Donoghue, Caroline,. The Rachel incident / Caroline O'Donoghue. First American edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. 289 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel"--Jacket. "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."-- Provided by publisher. 20230627. Friendship Fiction. Self-realization in women Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Domestic fiction.