Shortlisted for a TikTok Book Award - Book of the Year (UK and Ireland)

’If you’ve ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did’ GABRIELLE ZEVIN

’Funny, nostalgic, sexy’ MONICA HEISEY

’Hilarious, wise and wonderfully written’ GRAHAM NORTON

Everyone in Cork remembers the Rachel Incident. But what really happened? It’s simple. It’s complicated. It’s about love, sex and friendship. It’s definitely about betrayal. And, above all, it’s the story of Rachel and James, two twenty-somethings who met at a bookshop, became best friends, and spent one unforgettable year screwing up and growing up.

’I adored it’ COCO MELLORS

’Reading it is like hearing your funniest, sexiest friend tell you the best story they know’ KATHERINE RUNDELL

’Sharply witty, warm-hearted and wise’ GUARDIAN

’O’Donoghue captures all the intensity of messy young love’ MAIL ON SUNDAY

’A book full of love, and it is extremely easy to love reading it’ VOGUE

’Chaos at its finest’ STYLIST

’Easily 13/10 . . . Funny, lovely, romantic’ MARIAN KEYES

The Rachel Incident was a #2 bestseller in Ireland in June 2023

CAROLINE O’DONOGHUE

Caroline O’Donoghue is a New York Times bestselling author and podcaster. She has published two adult novels, Promising Young Women and Scenes of a Graphic Nature. All Our Hidden Gifts, her YA debut fantasy, was shortlisted for a National Book Token award and has been published in over 20 territories worldwide. It is the first of her critically acclaimed ’Gifts’ trilogy and is followed by The Gifts That Binds Us (2021) and a third, arriving in 2023.

Formerly a journalist, Caroline has written for The Times, The Guardian, and most of the Irish press. Her award-winning podcast, Sentimental Garbage covers "the culture we love that society can sometimes make us feel ashamed of" and tops the podcast charts internationally. Caroline lives in London with her partner and her dog.