Slick and refined like an expensive HBO series, but what gives it heart is the authors’ raucous humour
O’Donoghue’s descriptions of sex are painfully funny and vivid. She describes over-zealous lovers thus: “They sucker on to your clitoris like a fish at the side of a tank.” Or when writing about what it was like to arrange a termination in England pre-Repeal, she writes: “You select a clinic based not so much on safety or medical prowess but on where Ryanair is doing a deal with that month.
At one point Rachel is discussing a writer with a friend, who says, “God, well he was always going to be famous, wasn’t he?” and it feels like O’Donoghue could be writing about herself because The Rachel Incident will surely set her on a path to literary stardom. Not because she reinvents the wheel but rather because her smart and funny novels are the kind of books that readers look forward to, and also because there is nobody else quite like her.
Edel Coffey, a contributor to The Irish Times, is a journalist and broadcaster. Her first novel, Breaking Point, is published by Sphere
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