The Rachel incident : a novel
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289 pages ; 24 cm.
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It's 2009, the height of the economic recession, and as the end of Rachel Murray's college degree looms, she can't help feeling worried about having chosen to study English given the lack of job prospects. But then she develops a crush on Fred Byrne, her Victorian literature professor, a "huge" and "passionate" man whose most alluring quality is that his "wife had been a student." Rachel's new friend James Devlin--who insists he isn't gay despite Rachel's strong suspicions to the contrary--pushes her to pursue her crush by arranging for Dr. Byrne to have an event for his new book at the bookshop where they both work. At the reading, though, Dr. Byrne shows no interest in Rachel; instead, she walks in on him and James making out in the stockroom. This turns Rachel's life on its head, but not in the ways she expected: Her friendship with James becomes more intimate, and now she has to keep secrets for Dr. Byrne, which becomes more complicated when she starts working for his wife, Aideen.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
O'Donoghue, C. (2023). The Rachel incident: a novel . Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)O'Donoghue, Caroline. 2023. The Rachel Incident: A Novel. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)O'Donoghue, Caroline. The Rachel Incident: A Novel Knopf, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)O'Donoghue, Caroline. The Rachel Incident: A Novel Knopf, 2023.
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