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Автор Мэриан Кейз

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RACHEL’S HOLIDAY

‘One of the most successful writers of contemporary fiction’

Daily Express

‘Snappy writing and Keyes’ sharp eye for the absurdities of life make cracking entertainment’

Woman & Home

‘Keyes is a rare writer in the popular fiction genre in that most of her characters are as strong as her plot lines and the dialogue sparkles and rings true’

Irish Times

‘She is a talented comic writer… laden with plot, twists, jokey asides and nicely turned bits of zeitgeisty observational humour… energetic, well-constructed prose delivers life and people in satisfyingly various shades of grey’

Guardian

‘(She) gives popular fiction a good name, no easy feat in a field dominated by overpaid imitators and charlatans’

Independent on Sunday

‘Keyes has a gift for zippy prose which means reading her is like delving into a delicious souffle’

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‘Keyes has taken over Binchy’s crown as the Queen of Irish Fiction. [She] is a superior storyteller who seamlessly combines style and substance, humour and pathos, and thoroughly deserves her best-selling status’ Irish Independent

‘Her writing sparkles and the world is a better place for her books’

Irish Tatler

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marian Keyes is the international bestselling author of Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel’s Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, and most recently The Other Side of the Story, a Sunday Times Number One Bestseller. She is published in twenty-nine different languages. A collection of her journalism, called Under the Duvet, is also available in Penguin. Marian lives in Dublin with her husband.

Rachel’s Holiday

MARIAN KEYES

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First published in Penguin Books 1997

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All events and characters in this novel are fictitious.

Any resemblance to actual events or real people is coincidental.

Extract from ‘Advent’ by Patrick Kavanagh, reproduced by kind permission

of the Trustees of the Estate of Kathleen Kavanagh.

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