Walsh Family · Book 2

Rachel's Holiday

by Marian Keyes

Published
1 January 1997
Pages
570
ISBN-13
9781405911566
Type
novel

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Cover of Rachel's Holiday

About this book

Rachel's Holiday, the series' most acclaimed entry, follows Rachel Walsh through addiction and a stint in rehab, appearing two years after Watermelon in 1997 at 570 pages. It sets up Again, Rachel, the 2022 sequel that catches up with Rachel decades later.

Its place in Walsh Family

Rachel's Holiday is book 2 in the Walsh Family series. It follows Watermelon. It is followed by Angels. See the full Walsh Family reading order.

The Walsh family are a boisterous, tightly-bonded Dublin household -- overbearing Mammy, quietly long-suffering Dad, and five very different adult daughters (Claire, Rachel, Maggie, Anna and Helen) -- who anchor Marian Keyes' best-loved and longest-running series. Each of the first five novels follows a different sister through a defining personal crisis, using comedy as a route into genuinely difficult material: Watermelon (1995) opens the series with Claire, abandoned by her husband on the day she gives birth…

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