The thing with Rachel

When Rachel, a student working in a bookstore, meets James, it' s love at first sight. Unbridled and extravagant James, who insists, that he is heterosexual, He suggests roommates to Rachel, which gives birth to friendship, which will change both their lives. Together they romp through the streets of Cork, trying to maintain a bohemian lifestyle while they and all of Ireland teeter on the brink of financial ruin.

When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James will help her organize in the bookstore, where they both work, author' s reading, after which Rachel intends to seduce him. But Fred has other desires. Thus begins a series of secrets and compromises that will intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred' s charming, middle-class wife. The novel The Rachel Thing is a literary triumph full of the pain of unrequited love and harsh humor.

It is published in the translation of Alžběta Komrsková.