Product Description

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1577 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 640 pages

Synopsis
"Rachel's Holiday", Marian's classic novel about addiction, is being given a new lease of life with a fantastic new jacket treatment. Here's Rachel Walsh, twenty-seven and the miserable owner of size 8 feet. She has regular congress with Luke Costello, a man who wears his leather trousers tight. And she's fond - some might say too fond - of recreational drugs. Until she finds herself being frogmarched to the Cloisters - Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She's outraged. Surely she's not thin enough to be an addict? Heartsick and Luke-sick, she seeks redemption in the shape of Chris, a Man with a Past. A man who might be more trouble than he's worth.

Customer Reviews

light hearted and funny whilst still remaining very potent sensitive and respectful
This book deal's with serious issues such as drug addiction and suicide but in away that's still light hearted and funny whilst still remaining very potent sensitive and respectful.Throughout this book you follow rachel's journey through rehab and her realisation that she's a drug addict.There are moments where you'll laugh out load then a few sentences later you'll be fighting back tears.Having read a lot of books Marian Keyes remains the only author i have come across who can make such serious issues still light and easy to read.Highly recommended.

Same
I've read several of Keyes' books, the first being Anybody Out There. I loved that book and craved more of her humour, so I went out and bought a handful of her books. I was not impressed! They start of great, with humourous characters and potentialy brilliant plots, but after having read three or four you begin to see her lack of imagination. I have read at least three of her books which are based around the same family. Five sisters, the youngest Helen, next Anna, so on and so on. Her pace of writing is unsettling and confusing, and she can easily loose you mid-sentance.
She has such potential, and if you have never read a Keyes before then you should.. just don't read more than three.I would recomend Anybody Out There, The Other Side Of The Story and Watermelon.

really bad
This isn't a 'funny' book, its about differnet addictions: i.e. alcohol, drugs, violence, childhood. I read half of it and then thought, I don't really want to know how to tackle different addictions, I just wanted a light hearted read.