Rachel’s Holiday
She is sure she is not an addict, because surely addicts are thinner. Rehab disagrees.
Rachel Walsh is escorted home from New York to an Irish rehab clinic she is certain she does not need, since as she points out, surely drug addicts are thinner. She expects celebrities and a spa; she gets group therapy and hard work. Keyes writes addiction and denial from the inside with enough humour that the book is funny long before you notice how bleak it is, and the denial is rendered exactly.
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Sophie Kinsella
This book had me right from the moment the protagonist, Rachel, opines that she can’t be an addict: ‘Surely drug addicts were thinner?’ She thinks rehab will be glamorous and filled with celebrities – instead it’s hard work. Addiction is a gritty subject, but the story of Rachel’s progress is told with such humour and reality that you devour the pages – and there are a lot of them.
Interview · August 2010
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