Promising Young Women Synopsis
THE RACHEL INCIDENT - Caroline O'Donoghue's bestselling new novel* - is out now
A darkly funny novel about being a young woman in a man's world
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Like Nora Ephron's Heartburn, Promising Young Women positively thrums with relatability and honesty'
IRISH INDEPENDENTJane is twenty-six, freshly dumped, and on the bottom rung of a lacklustre marketing career. She is also moonlighting as a worldly agony aunt. When an office party goes too far, she drunkenly tries out another role: the Other Woman. As Jane's affair with her much older, married boss takes off, she disregards the advice her alter ego would give and dissolves into being someone else's dirty little secret. But she's not the only one at her company to have taken the wrong path. As she finds her own health and sanity disintegrating, can she discover the truth before another promising young woman is taken under his wing?
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Deeply relatable and darkly comic . . .
It'll have you nodding with familiarity, thinking, laughing -
and crying -
as you race towards the end'
GRAZIA'
So brilliant, I highly recommend it' DOLLY ALDERTON
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I loved it -
whipsmart and so witty' MARIAN KEYES
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Sharp, pithy and engaging'
IRISH TIMES'
Smart and spiky'
METROAn Post Irish Book Awards Shortlisted - Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year*The Rachel Incident was a #2 bestseller in Ireland in June 2023
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Caroline O'Donoghue Press Reviews
A story that couldn't be more fitting for 2018, it'll have you nodding with familiarity, thinking, laughing - and crying - as you race towards the end - Grazia
Promising Young Women manages to capture exactly how it feels to be a twentysomething woman in London while also containing a gleefully dark and gothic streak. It's an absolute gamechanger - The Pool
Promising Young Women is a look at office politics and power dynamics between men and women at work, with a gothic, slightly terrifying tone - Stylist
You'll find both [forbidden love and scandal] in large measure in Promising Young Women, from the always on-the-nose Caroline O'Donoghue. Office worker by day and agony aunt by night, Jane Peters gets caught up in a risky affair that threatens to derail everything she's managing to precariously hold down. It's tipped to be this summer's bestseller and if you've read Caroline's writing before or follow her on Twitter, you'll know why - Bustle, The Best British Beach Reads For Summer 2018
Promising Young Women is indeed full of promise, a novel penned by a 28-year-old Corkwoman in a style that is sharp, pithy and engaging ... Promising Young Women is timely and vibrant, with O'Donoghue particularly sharp on gender relations - Irish Times
About Caroline O'Donoghue
Caroline O'Donoghue is a Contributing Editor for The-Pool.com who has written for Glamour, The Irish Times and Grazia. She also co-hosts the podcast, School for Dumb Women. Find out more on Twitter @Czaroline or at https://www.czaroline.com/.
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