Rachel's Holiday: A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection - Softcover

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9780140271799: Rachel's Holiday: A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection

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ISBN 10: 0140271791 ISBN 13: 9780140271799

Publisher: Penguin, 1997

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'How did it end up like this? Twenty-seven, unemployed, mistaken for a drug addict, in a treatment centre in the back arse of nowhere with an empty Valium bottle in my knickers . . .'

Meet Rachel Walsh. She has a pair of size 8 feet and such a fondness for recreational drugs that her family has forked out the cash for a spell in Cloisters - Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She's only agreed to her incarceration because she's heard that rehab is wall-to-wall jacuzzis, gymnasiums and rock stars going tepid turkey - and it's about time she had a holiday.

But what Rachel doesn't count on are the toe-curling embarrassments heaped on her by family and group therapy, the dearth of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll - and missing Luke, her ex. What kind of a new start in life is this?

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Deliciously dark and fantastically funny, Rachel's Holiday is the story of a young woman living life rather too well until the day she takes it too far endangering everything she cares about . . . (from the publisher's description)

From the Back Cover:

Imagine you're Rachel.

Living in glamorous New York City, spending your nights at fabulous parties and heading home in the small hours to your sexy boyfriend Luke.

Then your sensible older sister shows up.

Next thing you know, you're being escorted back to your parents, who insist on checking you in to Cloisters, a kind of low rent Priory.

Suddenly you're in therapy sessions and being cured of all your addictions: the drugs, the high life and even Luke.

But you're young - can't you make a few mistakes?

Because you can't help worrying:
if they take all this away, what'll be left?

'A born storyteller' Independent on Sunday

'The voice of a generation' Daily Mirror

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