

Rachel's Holiday
Author: Marian Keyes
Narrator: Anne Flosnik
Abridged: 11 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 03/12/2009
Categories: Fiction
Author: Marian Keyes
Narrator: Anne Flosnik
Abridged: 11 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 03/12/2009
Categories: Fiction
Marian Keyes is the author of ten bestselling novels and two essay collections. She lives in Ireland with her husband and their two imaginary dogs.
I read this book and loved it. This is one of several books she writes about a fictional Irish family with 5 grown daughters. Each sister has a book, Rachel's Holiday, Angles, Watermellon, Anyone Out There. . .etc. . . What's cool is that the charachters carry their own personalities over from book to book even though they are not a series. Very entertaining, I laughed and cried. Suggest reading all of them. You feel like you are a part of that family.
I think this is my favorite Walsh sister novel. It’s dark, depressive, sad but thanks to Ms. Keyes’ extraordinary sense of humor and witty but also realistic approach to the addiction, eating disorder, self-destruction and emotional insecurities hooks us from the beginning. Rachel’s rehab journey and......more
I waffled between five and four stars for all of ten seconds before deciding on five, simply because of my sheer inability to be rational about this novel. I fell in love with Rachel, and I have no idea why. If I hadn't picked this up at a library sale when my impulse control was at it's lowest, I w......more
I read this a long time ago, before I started keeping track. Love the Walsh family series and this is an interesting look at addiction and recovery.......more
I loved this book. Marian Keyes is real and raw and knows what she’s talking about, having walked the talk. It makes me feel the same way as when journalists write crime fiction, I know I am in safe hands. Having gotten sober herself in rehab, her writing has flourished since. This is a fun series ce......more