Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes a schoolboy riding his bicycle

a schoolboy riding his bicycle up and down the country road where he was killed

for financial security

Olive is forced to play nice with her nemesis: the best man

But her life as a teacher is disrupted as she makes a new friend who unsettles her and asks for unexpected support

landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the World

Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes a schoolboy riding his bicycleHere's Rachel Walsh, twenty seven and the miserable owner of size 8 feet. She has regular congress with Luke Costello, a man who wears his leather trousers tight. And she's fond some might say too fond of recreational drugs. Until she finds herself being frogmarched to the Cloisters Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She's outraged. Surely she's not thin enough to be an addict? Heartsick and Luke sick, she seeks redemption in the shape of