Promising Young Women: ‘So brilliant... I highly recommend it’ Dolly Alderton
Jun 2018 · Hachette UK
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THE RACHEL INCIDENT - Caroline O'Donoghue's bestselling new novel* - is out now
A darkly funny novel about being a young woman in a man's world
'Like Nora Ephron's Heartburn, Promising Young Women positively thrums with relatability and honesty' IRISH INDEPENDENT
Jane is twenty-six, freshly dumped, and on the bottom rung of a lacklustre marketing career. She is also moonlighting as a worldly agony aunt. When an office party goes too far, she drunkenly tries out another role: the Other Woman. As Jane's affair with her much older, married boss takes off, she disregards the advice her alter ego would give and dissolves into being someone else's dirty little secret. But she's not the only one at her company to have taken the wrong path. As she finds her own health and sanity disintegrating, can she discover the truth before another promising young woman is taken under his wing?
'Deeply relatable and darkly comic . . . It'll have you nodding with familiarity, thinking, laughing - and crying - as you race towards the end' GRAZIA
'So brilliant, I highly recommend it' DOLLY ALDERTON
'I loved it - whipsmart and so witty' MARIAN KEYES
'Sharp, pithy and engaging' IRISH TIMES
'Smart and spiky' METRO
An Post Irish Book Awards Shortlisted - Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year
*The Rachel Incident was a #2 bestseller in Ireland in June 2023
A darkly funny novel about being a young woman in a man's world
'Like Nora Ephron's Heartburn, Promising Young Women positively thrums with relatability and honesty' IRISH INDEPENDENT
Jane is twenty-six, freshly dumped, and on the bottom rung of a lacklustre marketing career. She is also moonlighting as a worldly agony aunt. When an office party goes too far, she drunkenly tries out another role: the Other Woman. As Jane's affair with her much older, married boss takes off, she disregards the advice her alter ego would give and dissolves into being someone else's dirty little secret. But she's not the only one at her company to have taken the wrong path. As she finds her own health and sanity disintegrating, can she discover the truth before another promising young woman is taken under his wing?
'Deeply relatable and darkly comic . . . It'll have you nodding with familiarity, thinking, laughing - and crying - as you race towards the end' GRAZIA
'So brilliant, I highly recommend it' DOLLY ALDERTON
'I loved it - whipsmart and so witty' MARIAN KEYES
'Sharp, pithy and engaging' IRISH TIMES
'Smart and spiky' METRO
An Post Irish Book Awards Shortlisted - Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year
*The Rachel Incident was a #2 bestseller in Ireland in June 2023
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4.6
9 reviews
Josephina Ballerina
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August 31, 2023
A really great exploration of office culture and navigating your twenties when so much is expected of you, but you have no idea what you're bloody doing. Misogyny, power imbalances, coercion .. this was so much darker than I had expected. My only wish is that the sinisterness (is that a word?) appeared earlier in the book; I got a tad itchy waiting for something to happen but when it did .. blimey it really did!
Molly O'Donoghue
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May 4, 2020
I really enjoyed this book, read it in three days. Caroline writes in a way that makes it difficult not to read the next chapter straight away. I liked the different parts of Jane we get to see and how she reasons with herself in difficult situations. Can't wait for the next book!
Catherine Kiersey
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July 12, 2024
Interesting read
About the author
Caroline O'Donoghue is a New York Times best-selling author and the host of the award-winning podcast Sentimental Garbage. She has written two previous novels for adults, Promising Young Women and Scenes of a Graphic Nature. She has also written the best-selling supernatural series for teenagers, All Our Hidden Gifts. She was born in Ireland and currently lives in London.
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