Again, Rachel

Critics Review

• Again, Rachel has all of Keyes’s trademark wit, humour and whip-smart dialogue, but it’s also a novel teeming with compassion and redemption

  Observer

• Delightfully funny

  Daily Telegraph

• Perceptive, hilarious and moving, it’s a captivating roller coaster of a read and it’s a joy to be reunited with Rachel and the rest of the Walsh clan.

  Daily Record

• Again, Rachel is fabulous. Beautifully written, pure 5-star Keyes – clever, lively, funny, compelling

  Nina Stibbe

• Funny, heartbreaking, achingly real – Keyes has done it again. Gorgeous. I absolutely loved it

  Jane Fallon

• It will break your heart and nourish your soul . . . No one can evoke deep feeling with such a light touch as Marian Keyes. She brings her characters to life with Dickensian brio. I think it might be her finest novel yet

  Nigella Lawson

• It’s excellent and it’s everything. Funny, gorgeous, but a painful, powerful story about addiction, emotions and humanity. Exquisite

  Daisy Buchanan

• A sequel worth the wait . . This garrulous, fast-paced read offers the joy of a reunion with not just Rachel, but the rambunctious Walsh clan. An entertaining, growingly poignant contemporary tale

  Sunday Times

• No other author marries heartbreak and hilarity so seamlessly

  Mail on Sunday

• Addictive . . . Marian’s mastery of story and character is as impressive as ever, and the whole thing rings totally true from start to finish

  Heat, Book of the Year 2022

• This new novel is like slipping into a warm, bubbly bath

  Good Housekeeping

• Funny, heart-breaking and so wise

  Daily Mail

• It’s beautifully written, funny, heart-breaking and always wise. I was so happy to be reunited with this iconic protagonist and her fabulous family – a proper treat

  Daily Mail

• Utterly brilliant, wise and funny. So fabulous. I adore it

  Cathy Kelly

• Her particular gift is the ability to settle the reader into a comfortable seat, then carry them to the darkest places; to make serious things funny – and moving. She handles with intelligence and humour the issues that the question of long-term addiction recovery throws up

  The Times

• A smashing sequel. Keyes delivers punchy home truths with wit and charm as we revisit her best-loved heroine. There is a real genius to the way Keyes brings deep, awful truths to the surface. Keyes has mastered the art of writing books that read like treats, but turn out to be good for you

  Telegraph

• Brilliant

  Stylist

• You’ll devour this unputdownable tale

  OK!

• Beautifully moving and funny

  Sinead Moriarty

• Wise and witty, this is destined to be as successful as its forerunner

  Woman's Weekly

• A welcome return for Keyes’ messy heroine. In Rachel, Keyes has created a character that takes her readers through the rough and the smooth – and we are more than happy to go along for the ride

  Metro

• Warm-hearted, witty and fearless in the face of life’s sorrows, Again, Rachel is a celebration of the enduring power of love

  Daily Mail

• Brilliant. Truly wonderful. Like sinking into a deep, luxurious, bubble bath. Sharply observed, this big-hearted book has plenty of laugh-out-loud moments and is a treat of a novel

  My Weekly

• Keyes has always been an excellent storyteller but here she is at the peak of her powers, her writing even more honest and vulnerable than usual. A profound and smart book that will be enjoyed by die-hard fans and new readers alike. And Luke Costello is sexier than ever.

  iNews

• Brilliant

  Lucy Mangan

• Assured, wise and witty with superb observational detail, reading Marian Keyes is like being cradled in safe arms. This book is destined to be as successful as its forerunner

  Woman & Home

• Bereavement, grief, addiction, family, fun, humour, love, romance. It’s all there

  Sheila O' Flanagan

• Warm, witty and wise – a joy to read

  Sun

• There’s a wisdom to Marian Keyes’ iconic Rachel

  Sainsbury's Magazine

• Keyes is an exceptional storyteller and her ability to blend comedy, high drama and emotional depth is second to none. Empathetic, insightful, romantic and witty, Again, Rachel is again a delight from start to finish.

  Daily Express

• Again, Rachel is a tour de force. A fearless novel about loving and losing and hoping. It’s perfection

  Gillian McAllister

• A brilliant reminder of just how comforting it can be to return to characters that once captured our hearts.

  Stylist

• Set to be one of the biggest books of the year

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• Joyful, wise, empathetic, funny, sexy, and so thoughtful on addiction, too

  Sarah Vaughan

• Darkly comic . . . Just as tender, heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny as her first outing

  Best

• Again, Rachel is like a six hundred page hug and is Marian Keyes at her hilarious yet heartbreaking best

  Red Magazine

• I loved Again, Rachel. Such a beautiful, wise, powerful book

  Elly Griffiths

• Rachel somehow helps us all to find our better, truer selves. I’ve still got 100 pages to go, but part of me wishes it was 1,000

  Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, The Week

• Keyes is a giant of Irish writing who has not so much defined a genre, as she has created it

  Natasha Poliszczuk

• Perceptive, hilarious and deeply moving, this is a wise and insightful look at modern life

  Sunday Express

• Switch the phone to silent, banish all distractions: it’s time for a book binge

  Saga Magazine

• Fabulous. I loved becoming reacquainted with the Walsh family

  My Weekly Special Series

• A masterclass in creating the perfect follow-up story . . . This sequel shone

  Daily Express

• Included in ‘Best Paperbacks of April 2023’

  THE TIMES

• There aren’t many books that come along . . . where on one page you can be laughing hysterically, and then you turn the page and you’re nearly in tears for the opposite reason. This is that book. Beautifully told. Loads of warmth, loads of humour.

  Times Radio

• She is a genius stylist. Her characters are so vivid, her situations feel so real and authentic. This is my favourite book of hers.

  Times Radio

• Amazing

  Beth O'Leary

• Enticing

  Stylist

• There’s light and dark in all Keyes’ novels, equal measures of hilarity and heartbreak

  Scotsman

• Hard to put down

  Sunday Express

• Lovable, funny. Doesn’t disappoint

  Sunday Life

• Keyes at the peak of her powers

  Scotsman

• Praise for Marian Keyes

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• Messy, tangled complex humans who reminded me that few of us ever really sort out our lives at all

  Jojo Moyes

• A novel that is warm and witty but never afraid to tackle the big stuff

  Mail on Sunday

• Magnificently messy lives, brilliantly untangled. Funny, tender and completely absorbing!

  Graham Norton

• Keyes knows how to make serious issues relatable – and get a few grownup laughs, too

  Guardian

• There should be a word to describe the sadness and satisfaction you feel when you read the last page of a Marian Keyes novel: the ending is perfect but you still want more, more, more

  Liane Moriarty

• Charming, funny and poignant. But also profound, heartbreaking

  Nina Stibbe

• Keyes at her best: capturing everyday voices with humour and empathy with writing that you’ll devour in a weekend. Just pure and simple joy

  Stylist

• Funny, thought-provoking and will get you right in the feels

  Red

• Sensitive, funny, wonderful, immensely touching

  Nigella Lawson

• Marian Keyes’s gift for storytelling is utterly magnificent

  Liz Nugent

• Rachel Walsh is back with a bang. Wickedly shrewd and fun

  RTE Guide, 'Top 10 Fiction of 2022'