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Again, Rachel

Again, Rachel

Summary

THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 2023 THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT IN 2023!
EVERY GENERATION HAS ONE GREAT LOVE STORY.
THIS IS OURS.

'Beautifully written. Clever, lively, funny, compelling' NINA STIBBE
'Marian's most moving, emotive and brilliantly written book yet' 5***** READER REVIEW
'Funny, heartbreaking, achingly real. Gorgeous. I absolutely loved it' JANE FALLON
'Rachel and Luke's relationship is one of the best ever written' 5***** READER REVIEW
'Beautifully written, funny, heart-breaking and always wise. A proper treat' DAILY MAIL
'I laughed, I cried, I obsessed. Wonderful' 5***** READER REVIEW

**THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022**
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Losing the love of your life once is tragic. TWICE looks like carelessness . . .

Rachel Walsh is a survivor: she survived rehab and the loss of her greatest love.

These days everything in her life is good - good job, good dog, very good boyfriend. Then Luke - her ex of six years - shows up.

Suddenly she's fragile and falling.

They ended badly and neither can speak of the secret hurt which drove them apart.

But is it fear of what happened? Or what might happen next?
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'An entertaining, growingly poignant contemporary tale' SUNDAY TIMES

'No other author marries heartbreak and hilarity so seamlessly' MAIL ON SUNDAY

'Marian's mastery of story and character is as impressive as ever' HEAT 'BOOK OF THE YEAR'

Why readers LOVE Again, Rachel!

'Again, Rachel has all the ingredients that make Marian's books so uniquely special - warmth, humour, sadness and depth. It's absolutely perfect' 5* Reader Review

'Marian Keyes is just the most talented writer. I adore her, and this book is a pinnacle. It left me sobbing with its beauty, and minutes later laughing out loud at the wit and wry humour of the deeply flawed and deeply human characters' 5* Reader Review

'I devoured this book and lost myself in the characters that Marian makes so accessible, easy to identify with and so perfectly flawed' 5* Reader Review

'I'm going to have to read it again because I can't bear to leave the characters behind. Wonderful!' 5* Reader Review

Reviews

  • Again, Rachel has all of Keyes's trademark wit, humour and whip-smart dialogue, but it's also a novel teeming with compassion and redemption
    Observer

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. My Favourite Mistake is her sixteenth novel.
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