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Rachel Holiday Marian Keyes 9780060090388 Books

Marian Keyes is a very funny writer, and like so many of her books, this one manages to deal with a serious subject and still be tremendously entertaining. The serious subject here is drug and alcohol addiction. In New York Irish ex-pat Rachel Walsh's life devolves as she develops cocaine and alcohol addictions. After losing her job, her boyfriend, and her best friend, Rachel finds herself back in Ireland in treatment. Refusing to believe that she is an addict, Rachel agrees to treatment only because she thinks she might see celebrities. What follows are Rachel's comic misadventures as an addict in denial while in treatment, interspersed with the story of how she became an addict.

Keyes has an amazing ability to bring humor to horrible situations, and this is a book to read when you need a pick-me-up. The ending is a bit unbelievable, but the book is by and large light and fun reading.


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Rachel Holiday Marian Keyes 9780060090388 Books Reviews

I like Marian Keyes's books for light reading when I want a break from heavier stuff, and I enjoyed "Rachel's Holiday" more than I thought I would--or perhaps I should say differently than I expected. While it still had a few laugh-out-loud sections, there were also some very insightful passages about addiction, personal change, and human nature. Anyone who has had addiction issues or who knows someone with addiction problems would find this book worth reading. The plot was, predictably, a romantic feel-good sort of story line, but I found myself turning the pages nonetheless and finished the book in just a couple of days. Being from an Irish-American family of all girls, I could easily relate to the family dynamics, which made the funny passages even more hilarious and the poignant ones hit home stronger. I commend Ms. Keyes for writing about the topic in a way that makes it both accessible and pleasurable, yet uncompromising in its ultimate message about the perils of addiction.
I bought this 2 May 2013, and have stored it on my Library and re-read it many times. I’ve read nearly all of of this authors novels and loved her characters, her laugh-out-loud sense of humour and each sister's life and perspective. ‘Rachel’s Holiday’ was different to her other books and definitely not a traditional chick lit book... providing an insight into seeing things from a different point of view.

Rachel is the life-of-the-party sister. Rachel is succumbing to the lure of alcohol, cocaine and prescription medication while living in New York with her best friend. After she turns up with a freshly-pumped stomach in an emergency room, her family whisks her back to Ireland for rehab.

The story starts out when she is placed in The Cloisters, an addiction treatment center, and her life has seemingly fallen apart. She has lost her job, her boyfriend, and she is so charming, it is hard to understand why. Although Rachel resists her diagnosis of addict, she agrees to sign in to the rehab of choice for Irish rock stars, figuring it will be glam and spa-like experience but finds out the hard way that treatment is no holiday.

As the story unfolds, we learn to see Rachel's part in her life's undoing, and hope that she can pull it back together after she gains some insight, and makes some changes, that are very inspiring.

It is an Amazing book. How Marian Keys manages to deal with such serious issues, yet be completely hilarious is beyond me. This is my third time reading the book and I get something new and different from it each time.
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**Some might consider my review to contain some spoilers!**

Like many others have said, I DO NOT think that this book is chick lit!! Just because an author predominately writes chick lot, doesn't mean that every single book by her (or him) IS chick lit. That generalization really bugs me. Grrr.

Okay, now that that's off of my chest, I can get to my review. ) I am a former addict and I could relate to this book in some ways...in the important and poignant ways, I believe. Like so many other addicts, Rachel hasn't truly hit rock bottom yet and decides to go to the rehabilitation center because of the false images and expectations she has of it. She doesn't realize there's actual work, actual sobriety, actual transparency, and actual PAIN involved. And, when she arrives, she doesn't realize it isn't a hunting ground for a quick lay. AND she doesn't realize that so many others are spewing the same amount of bs that she is.

At first she feels a sense of pity for the poor people in denial; she even feels outrage on their behalf because of how she perceives them to be "wrongly" treated by the staff. She experiences a huge array of emotions throughout the book lust, jealousy, anger, injustice, fear, shame, and more. I kind of perceived it (due to my own experience with addiction and sobriety) as running through the gauntlet of grief. Losing your number one vice and learning how to FEEL and actually experience life is not an easy thing when you're used to coloring it with a drug of choice - ANY drug of choice. You have to grieve the loss of that drug AND you have to grieve the loss of anyone and anything you hurt beyond repair that you'll never get back again. As the blinders were being removed from Rachel's eyes, she not only saw clearly what a sober life is like, but she also heard about the people she hurt and the situations that SHE caused that had caused that hurt.

There is so, so much more that I could say about this book, but I'll let the reader experience it for him or herself. I thought the book was excellent and I also found it to become heartbreaking as more and more of Rachel's story unfolded. As I said above, I definitely DO NOT see this as chick lit. If you're looking for girly fluff or a girly time on the beach, this is NOT the book for you. Still, I found it to be a brilliant read.
Marian Keyes is a very funny writer, and like so many of her books, this one manages to deal with a serious subject and still be tremendously entertaining. The serious subject here is drug and alcohol addiction. In New York Irish ex-pat Rachel Walsh's life devolves as she develops cocaine and alcohol addictions. After losing her job, her boyfriend, and her best friend, Rachel finds herself back in Ireland in treatment. Refusing to believe that she is an addict, Rachel agrees to treatment only because she thinks she might see celebrities. What follows are Rachel's comic misadventures as an addict in denial while in treatment, interspersed with the story of how she became an addict.

Keyes has an amazing ability to bring humor to horrible situations, and this is a book to read when you need a pick-me-up. The ending is a bit unbelievable, but the book is by and large light and fun reading.