Member Review

I loved this book and it was one of those stories I couldn’t wait to pick up again whenever I had space in my life. Told in the intimate first-person voice of Rachel, a twenty-year-old Irish university student, it has that feel of Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’ crossed with the always funny Bridget Jones. It is a coming-of-age story that every one from 18 to 80+ might well enjoy. It reads more like a memoir than a plot-hungry novel, but there is a story, and that story is a wonderful dive into the ways young people think about friendship and love, sexuality, class, loyalty, and forgiveness, of their friends, their parents and themselves. Although the university world of Rachel may be many decades after my own, and on the surface some of the issues may be different, the underlying story in its insights, adventures and feelings is entirely relatable. Thank you to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for an advance digital review copy.