Reviews
Booklist
Rachel Walsh would describe herself as too large, unsexy, middle class, broke, and misunderstood.
Canberra Times
Rachel's Holiday is an amusing but sobering book that deals with drug addiction and institutionalisation.
Company
Read it to laugh - and cry.
Cosmopolitan
Addiction, alcoholism and anorexia don't sound like the stuff of romantic comedy, but this isn't just any love story.
Courier Mail
But Rachel is plump and shouldn't real drug abusers by thin?
Daily Mail
Marian Keyes has a knack for cracking a joke or getting sentimental that makes you carry on reading.
Evening Herald
But now it seems as if the populatiry of this commercial fiction is on the wane or at least undergoing a severe challenge from a more rugger quarter.
Herald Sun
This is a welcome break from the formula to which so many mainstream women novelists are writing these days.
Home and Life
Rachel's Holiday is compulsive reading ... funny, moving and inescapably honest.
Independent
Most blockbusters don't usually deliver the goods, even when it comes to sex and shopping. So it's a relief to come across a writer as warm and funny as Marian Keyes.
In Dublin
I read a short story in a magazine one afternoon in September 1993, and out of the blue I got an urge to write myself.
Library Journal
Recommended for public libraries.
Maire Claire
Move over Bridget Jones, Rachel Walsh is going for a ride!
New York Times
The protagonist, Rachel Walsh, has a penchant for recreational drugs and recreational sex, especially with men sporting tight leather pants.
Publishers Weekly
Keyes's stylish wit keeps readers attentive, and her take on addiction is insightful and compassionate.
Publishing News
Definitely another bestseller!
San Antonio Express
Cloaked in denial as thick as the terry robe she had envisioned being wrapped in, Rachel is immersed in humiliating group-therapy sessions, endless chores and excruciating public confessions.
The Cairns Post
Rachel's Holiday is one of the easiest books to read that I have ever picked up.
The Daily Telegraph
Marian Keyes takes a poignant, honest look at the suffering and loss wreaked by addiction in this endearing love story.
The Express
Keyes' first hand knowledge of the dangers of addiction adds an extra dimension to a tale about the ordeal of having to acknowledge drug dependency.
The Romance Reader
She's been living in New York for years, so her parents will have few horrible details to impart. And surely Luke, her ex-boyfriend, won't bother to fly across the Atlantic just to rat on her, will he?
U
There is a new depth to Marian Keyes's writing in Rachel's Holiday that makes it an enormously enjoyable read and plants her firmly and deservedly in the position of Ireland's third bestselling author to date, hot on the heels of Maeve Binchy and Roddy Doyle.
USA Today
But for Rachel Walsh, the tormented heroine of Marian Keyes' delightful novel Rachel's Holiday, the joke's on her - permanently.
Weekender Bendigo Advertiser
Rachel's Holiday is funny, surprising, moving and well worth reading.
Whats On
Rachel's Holiday is witty, upbeat, entertaining and extremely compelling.