It has sold more than 1.5-million copies worldwide and is still a top seller due to its re-release. Rachel’s Holiday is about Rachel coming to terms with the fact that she is an addict, and that if she doesn’t acknowledge it, it could destroy all her relationships, especially the one with Luke. Plenty of books are marketed as funny, insightful takes on women and their relationships and some of them hit the mark, but Keyes takes her novels to another level.Īgain, Rachel is as delightful, smartly funny, shrewd, sharp and lovable as the original, which was published almost 25 years ago. There are people who are masters of their craft and Keyes is one of them. Will it stand up to the original, or will it fail expectations and ruin the original work? So a couple of years ago when Marian Keyes told us she was writing a sequel to 1997’s Rachel’s Holiday, she was nervous. National advertising online promotion.There’s always trepidation about a sequel.
Keyes's considerable following on these shores will declare this a delight. British bestseller Keyes's latest confection (after Watermelon) makes such a painfully brittle start the reader nearly despairs of the cardboard cutout characters, but slowly they begin to breathe and morph into charmers. Lisa is chagrined and Ashling is shocked to learn that Jack may actually fancy Ashling, but one "sushi for beginners" dinner has her convinced. Ashling realizes that she has to let go of her cheerful "Miss Fix-It" demeanor and go after what she wants. Meanwhile, Ashling is betrayed by her boyfriend and her best friend Clodagh, whose bourgeois domesticity she's long envied. But after a particularly lusty meeting with her much-maligned long-distance London boyfriend, she wonders if the move and the single-minded career obsession have been worth it. She drives her Dublin staff to exhaustion, and Colleenīecomes a smashing success. The envy of the fashion industry, even if it kills her.
Furious at being passed up for a job at Manhattan Is a slap in the face, the only consolation being her rumpled-but-handsome new boss, Jack Devine. For Lisa Edwards, a high-maintenance London editor expecting a promotion to New York, her appointment as editor-in-chief of Colleen
For Ashling Kennedy, the new job she lands at start-up Irish fashion magazine Colleen
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