Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes
Rachel Walsh finds the fast lane to be far too slow. And Manhattan is the ideal setting for a young Irish woman to go overboard. However, Rachel’s passion for having fun is going to put her in the hospital’s emergency room. She will lose her beloved boyfriend and her job as a result.
Rachel feels hopeful when her devoted family rushes her back home and enrols her in Ireland’s equivalent of the Betty Ford Clinic. Maybe it will be lovely—spa services, famous people, that sort of stuff. Instead, she discovers a lot of group therapy, which forces her to develop some crucial self-knowledge. Additionally, she will come across something that all women like herself fear: a man who just might be right for her.
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In Rachel’s Holiday, a 27-year-old named Rachel is followed as she celebrates nonstop in New York until there almost isn’t a tomorrow. Her bizarre family sends her back to Ireland, where she ends up in a drug recovery facility.
This surprised me as a good book in a lot of ways. One was that the subject matter was far darker than I anticipated. Two, the method by which Keyes gradually shifts the reader’s perspective on Rachel from that of Rachel herself to that of an outsider observing a drug addict’s journey into addiction and eventual recovery.
At her best in Rachel’s Holiday, Marian Keyes. No other writer combines the funny with the sorrowful as skillfully as she does, causing you to laugh and cry in the same sentence. I finished reading it in a single day because I found it so engrossing. I hope this family is the subject of another book.
Marian did a fantastic job considering how difficult a subject it was to discuss and write about. I was enthralled the entire time, and it brought on both laughter and tears. I went into it expecting a simple romance book, but it turned out to be much more than that, and the author’s portrayal of addiction was excellent.
