THE RACHEL INCIDENT - Caroline O'Donoghue's bestselling new novel* - is out now
A darkly funny novel about being a young woman in a man's world, by the bestselling author of The Rachel Incident
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Like Nora Ephron's Heartburn, Promising Young Women positively thrums with relatability and honesty'
IRISH INDEPENDENTJane is twenty-six, freshly dumped, and on the bottom rung of a lacklustre marketing career. She is also moonlighting as a worldly agony aunt. When an office party goes too far, she drunkenly tries out another role: the Other Woman. As Jane's affair with her much older, married boss takes off, she disregards the advice her alter ego would give and dissolves into being someone else's dirty little secret. But she's not the only one at her company to have taken the wrong path. As she finds her own health and sanity disintegrating, can she discover the truth before another promising young woman is taken under his wing?
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Deeply relatable and darkly comic . . .
It'll have you nodding with familiarity, thinking, laughing -
and crying -
as you race towards the end'
GRAZIA'
So brilliant, I highly recommend it' DOLLY ALDERTON
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I loved it -
whipsmart and so witty' MARIAN KEYES
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Sharp, pithy and engaging'
IRISH TIMES'
Smart and spiky'
METROAn Post Irish Book Awards Shortlisted Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year*The Rachel Incident was a #2 bestseller in Ireland in June 2023
'O'Donoghue's writing is deeply relatable and darkly comic . . . It'll have you nodding with familiarity, thinking, laughing - and crying - as you race towards the end' Grazia
Jane is an adrift twenty-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. Then, at an office party, she takes on another role: the Other Woman. As Jane's affair with her much older, married boss, takes off, she discovers that sex and power go hand-in-hand, and that it's hard to keep your head when you're someone else's dirty little secret. And soon her friendships, her sanity and her life are put into jeopardy... .
'Manages to capture exactly how it feels to be a twentysomething woman in London while also containing a gleefully dark and gothic streak. It's an absolute gamechanger' The Pool
'Properly, properly funny' Alexandra Heminsley, BBC Radio 2 (Sara Cox Show)
'Like Nora Ephron's Heartburn or even Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones Diary, Promising Young Women positively thrums with relatability and honesty ... there is a brilliant sharpness underneath what may seem like a glossy surface' Irish Independent
An intriguing debut ...The novel takes an interesting turn, spiralling into a much darker story than you might expect. Likeable and compelling; we're looking forward to seeing what O'Donoghue does next
