The fast lane is much too slow for Rachel Walsh. And Manhattan is the perfect place for a young Irish female to overdo everything. But Rachel's love of a good time is about to land her in the emergency room. It will also cost her a job and the boyfriend she adores.When her loving family hustles her back home and checks her into Ireland's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic, Rachel is hopeful. Perhaps it will be lovely—spa treatments, celebrities, that kind of thing. Instead, she finds a lot of group therapy, which leads her, against her will, to some important self-knowledge. She will also find something that all women like herself fear: a man who might actually be good for her.
Quick Thoughts
It is very unfair to call Marian Keyes chicklit or fluffy. There is nothing fluffy about Rachel's Holiday.
I picked up this book on a whim in a charity shop after a disastrous exam. I wanted to read a book that was truthful and funny and I knew Marian Keyes would deliver. She always does. Maybe not always, The Mystery of Mercy Close was dreadful. I think of it now and grimace with boredom but that is another review for another day.
Rachel's Holiday is the second installment from the Walsh Sister's series and explores drug abuse without being judgmental, without being self-righteousness and it was painfully funny This is classic Keyes. It had humor, intelligent prose and depth.
If you are interested in finding out more about what happens to the Walsh Sisters, here is a list of all the books in the series so far.
The Walsh Sisters
1) Watermelon
2) Rachel's Holiday
3) Anybody Out there
4) The Mystery of Mercy Close
5)Angels
