Rachel's holiday
1997 • 592 pages

Ratings25

Average rating4

15

RACHEL'S HOLIDAY, Marian's classic novel about addiction, is being given a new lease of life with a fantastic new jacket treatment. Here's Rachel Walsh, twenty-seven and the miserable owner of size 8 feet. She has regular congress with Luke Costello, a man who wears his leather trousers tight. And she's fond - some might say too fond - of recreational drugs. Until she finds herself being frogmarched to the Cloisters - Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She's outraged. Surely she's not thin enough to be an addict? Heartsick and Luke-sick, she seeks redemption in the shape of Chris, a Man with a Past. A man who might be more trouble than he's worth.


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Series

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7 primary books

#2 in Walsh Family

Walsh Family is a 7-book series with 7 released primary works first released in 1995 with contributions by Marian Keyes.

#1
Watermelon
#2
Rachel's holiday
#3
Angels
#4
Anybody Out There?
#5
The Mystery of Mercy Close
#6
Again, Rachel
#7
My Favorite Mistake

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4⭐️, I did enjoy it but honestly I felt like it dragged a little in some spots.
The biggest reason I actually continued reading was because I was on holidays and didn't have another book with me. Overall I did enjoy it, I just think it would have been just as good if it was 100 pages shorter

June 29, 2022

Is it possible to read a book and still not know if you liked it or not?
I started this book, got bored, started again and willed myself to finish it.
It wasn't bad, it wasn't great...
I enjoyed parts of it a lot, and the writing it self is quite good, but I got lost every now and again...

October 23, 2014