Weekender Bendigo Advertiser
Rachel's Holiday is a guaranteed good read.
It's a strange combination of a humorous reflection on modern life, and a surprisingly serious look at the process of drug addiction.
Rachel Walsh is 27 and having a ball in New York, away for her native Dublin.
She enjoys her boyfriend Luke, going out and having fun, sniffing the odd line of cocaine.
But Rachel doesn't have a drug addiction - her use is only recreational, and anyway, everyone else does it, too.
At least that's what she tells herself before she accidentally takes an overdose and ends up in hospital having her stomach pumped.
Her horrified parents fly over from Dublin- at great expense - and whisk her back home to the Cloisters, Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic.
Rachel decides it could be worse - she expects mobs of film stars and a decent holiday from Cloisters.
But the reality of coming to terms with her drug addiction is much harder than she realises.
And along the way, Rachel must make some very unpalatable discoveries about herself.
Rachel's Holiday is funny, surprising, moving and well worth reading.