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Caroline O'Donoghue

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Caroline O'Donoghue is a New York Times bestselling author and host of the Sentimental Garbage podcast. She writes fiction for adults and teenagers.

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Caroline O'Donoghue Oh wow thank you so much! I'm not sure if you read fantasy but I think the All Our Hidden Gifts series is very close to The Rachel Incident in the sen…moreOh wow thank you so much! I'm not sure if you read fantasy but I think the All Our Hidden Gifts series is very close to The Rachel Incident in the sense that it focuses on young people in small town Ireland. The first few chapters of AOHG reads very young, so it might not strike you as 'for you' immediately, but I think the themes and the characters and the writing matures very quickly. The characters are very flawed yet, I think, loveable. I'm especially proud of books 2 & 3. Hope this helps! (less)
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The Rachel Incident

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All Our Hidden Gifts (All O...

3.91 avg rating — 18,542 ratings — published 2021 — 39 editions
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Promising Young Women

3.70 avg rating — 13,967 ratings — published 2018 — 16 editions
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Scenes of a Graphic Nature

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The Gifts That Bind Us (All...

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Skipshock

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Every Gift a Curse (All Our...

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i wrote this series a few years ago and honestly i find it so c*nty that i did. A whole trilogy?? In my twenties??? babygirl that was some confidence and i love you for it
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i wrote this series a few years ago and honestly i find it so c*nty that i did. A whole trilogy?? In my twenties??? babygirl that was some confidence and i love you for it
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this book brings on that very particular kind of deja vu where you're absolutely certain you must have studied it as a set text in school. It has that sort of quality to it: short, easy to read, devastating, makes you want to write 1,000 word little ...more
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“When something good happens to you at that age, you can’t settle with the notion that it’s a one-off. You want it to be the beginning of a tradition. That’s how I felt about that night: I wanted it already to be a memory, a foundational one, a first evening of many similar evenings. I wanted future nostalgia, a rear-view, years-old fondness for something that had literally just happened.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“I don’t know who I was trying to impress. I did not want a boyfriend; I did want romance. I wanted passion; I did not want to be someone who was known as easy. I was desperate to be touched; I was terrified of being ruined.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

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