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
'Like Nora Ephron's Heartburn, Promising Young Women positively thrums with relatability and honesty' IRISH INDEPENDENT
Jane 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?
'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
'I loved it - whipsmart and so witty' MARIAN KEYES
'Sharp, pithy and engaging' IRISH TIMES
'Smart and spiky' METRO
An Post Irish Book Awards Shortlisted - Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year
*The Rachel Incident was a #2 bestseller in Ireland in June 2023
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Caroline O'Donoghue is a New York Times best-selling author and the host of the award-winning podcast Sentimental Garbage. She has written two previous novels for adults, Promising Young Women and Scenes of a Graphic Nature. She has also written the best-selling supernatural series for teenagers, All Our Hidden Gifts. She was born in Ireland and currently lives in London.
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'So brilliant . . . It couldn't really be more timely . . . I highly recommend it' DOLLY ALDERTON
'I loved it. The writing is whipsmart and so witty' MARIAN KEYES
Jane Peters is an adrift twenty-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. But when an office party goes too far, Jane dissolves into the high-stakes world of being the Other Woman: a role she has the right advice for, but not the smarts to follow through on.
What starts out as a drunken mistake quickly unravels as Jane discovers that sex and power go hand-in-hand, and that it's hard to keep your head when you've become someone else's dirty little secret. And soon, her friendships, her sanity and even her life are put into jeopardy...
'Sharp, pithy and engaging' IRISH TIMES
'Brilliant' ELLE
'Deeply relatable and darkly comic . . . It'll have you nodding with familiarity, thinking, laughing - and crying - as you race towards the end' GRAZIA
'A future classic' JANE CASEY
AN Post Irish Book Awards Shortlisted - Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year