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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.

I only leave five star reviews on Goodreads, and i keep two star reviews inside my horrid brain where they can’t start beef with other authors
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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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“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.”
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“I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously.”
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“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.”
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