'It's funny and nostalgic and the sex scenes are actually sexy ... it's everything I want from a summer book'
- Monica Heisey, bestselling author of Really Good, Actually, Elle Summer Reads
'Funny, fond and wittily observed'
- Sunday Times
'A book full of love, and it is extremely easy to love reading it'
- Vogue
'Chaos at its finest'
- Stylist
'A headlong read about being young and hopelessly in lust ... Funny, fond and wittily observed'
- Sunday Times, Best Summer Reads
'So intimately warm and witty that reading it is like hearing your funniest, sexiest friend tell you the best story they know. It's about being a young idiot, and the glorious intensity of friendship in your early twenties'
- Katherine Rundell
'Deeply relatable and extremely funny, and features a dinner party scene so awkward I had to put the book down and do a bit of breathing before I continued'
- Eva Wiseman, Observer
'Sometimes the most passionate love stories are platonic. As sharply witty as it is warm-hearted and wise, this coming-of-age story about an Irish graduate and her gay best friend captures the intensity of friendship, the brittle craziness of youth and the desperation of gunning for an arts job in a recession'
- Guardian, Best Summer Reads
'Every so often, a novel comes around that makes you excited about reading again. For me, this year that is Caroline O'Donoghue's gripping, moving The Rachel Incident, which looks like it could be branded the book of the summer ... The book is full of witty insights that get you right to the heart of the character ... O'Donoghue is a funny, smart, fearless voice who strikes the perfect balance of realism and romance, and The Rachel Incident is a stormer of a novel'
- Emily Bootle, i news
'A deliciously complicated and very real romance with some refreshing twists. O'Donoghue captures all the intensity of messy young love, burnishing it with nostalgia and pointed wit'
- Hephzibah Anderson, Mail on Sunday
'Caroline O'Donoghue perfectly captures the intensity and high and lows of first love, and while The Rachel Incident is steeped in nostalgia and heartache, it's also very, very funny'
- Red Magazine
'An unconventional love story filled with heart and humour ... You'll gobble up The Rachel Incident in one bite and be left hungry for more'
- Daily Express