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3rd Nov 2025

November 2025: Book Pick 2: The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue

This November, we offer up two books for you to pick between in the book club (or read both!). Join us at The Delphine on the last wed of the month as we chat through the reads and enjoy a wee cocktail or mocktail on us 🙂

Shop the book here via our Amazon Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/49vsdco

More about the book

Everyone in Cork remembers the Rachel Incident. But what really happened? It’s simple. It’s complicated. It’s about love, sex and friendship. It’s definitely about betrayal. And, above all, it’s the story of Rachel and James, two twenty-somethings who met at a bookshop, became best friends, and spent one unforgettable year screwing up and growing up.

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Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and a TikTok Book Award – Book of the Year (UK & Ireland)

‘Reading it is like hearing your funniest, sexiest friend tell you the best story they know’ KATHERINE RUNDELL

‘Sharply witty, warm-hearted and wise’ GUARDIAN

O’Donoghue captures all the intensity of messy young love’ MAIL ON SUNDAY

‘A book full of love, and it is extremely easy to love reading it’ VOGUE

‘Chaos at its finest’ STYLIST

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