Caroline O'Donoghue

Az egyetemista Rachel egy könyvesboltban dolgozik, itt találkozik Jamesszel, akivel rögtön megtalálják a közös hangot. A szikrázóan intelligens fiúval hamarosan lakótársak lesznek, és ezzel egy olyan barátság veszi kezdetét, amely örökre megváltoztatja az életüket. Bohém életüket folytonos anyagi gondok közepette élik az írországi Corkban, vad tivornyázások közepette. Amikor Rachel beleszeret nős egyetemi tanárába, Dr. Fred Byrne-be, kieszelnek egy tervet: könyvbemutatót szerveznek neki, hogy utána a lány elcsábíthassa a férfit. Frednek azonban más vágyai vannak. Titkok és kompromisszumok sorozata kezdődik, amely összefonja James, Rachel, Fred és Fred elbűvölő, jó kapcsolatokkal rendelkező, tehetős felesége sorsát. Pezsdítően szórakoztató regény barátokról, szerelmesekről és egy fiatal nőről, aki kétségbeesetten próbál ellavírozni a kaotikus Írországi viszonyokban és a felnőttlétben.

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.

After a tough few years floundering around the British film industry, experimenting with amateur pornography and watching her father's health rapidly decline, Charlie and her best friend Laura journey to her ancestral home of Clipim, an island off the west coast of Ireland. She knows this could be the last chance to connect with her dad's history before she loses him. But when the girls arrive, Charlie begins to question both her difficult relationship with Laura and her father's childhood stories. Before long, she's embroiled in a devastating conspiracy that's been sixty years in the making . . . and it's up to her to reveal the truth. 'One of the most intelligent, well observed depictions of lust, loss, envy, betrayal, friendship and love that I've ever read' DAISY BUCHANAN 'A moving and extremely funny look at family, roots and the myth of Irishness' THE i, ESSENTIAL SUMMER READS

Maeve Chambers doesn't have much going for her. Not only does she feel like the sole idiot in a family of geniuses, she managed to drive away her best friend Lily a year ago. But when she finds a pack of dusty old tarot cards at school, and begins to give scarily accurate readings to the girls in her class, she realizes she's found her gift at last. Things are looking up - until she discovers a strange card in the deck that definitely shouldn't be there. And two days after she convinces her ex-best friend to have a reading, Lily disappears. Can Maeve, her new friend Fiona and Lily's brother Roe find her? And will Maeve's new gift be enough to bring Lily back, before she's gone for good?