Rachel Walsh’s first story, Rachel’s Holiday, was always my favorite of the Walsh sister stories, so it was a joy to return to her now that she’s 20 years sober and the head counselor at the place she got clean. Though her divorce from Luke six years earlier shattered her, now she’s got a lovely man in her life, plus a dog and a garden. When Luke comes back to Ireland out of the blue, she’s rattled by the memories she has to face. As ever, Keyes is mostly funny and sometimes sad but always a joy...

Rachel’s Holiday has the most special place in my heart and of course now this does too. It was a privilege to be by Rachel’s side during this one. Please be careful and gentle with your hearts while reading this there are some triggers.

When I first found out Keyes was working on another book in the Walsh Family series, I thought I was in the midst of a fever dream. When I found out it was centered around Rachel and it takes place 20 years after Rachel’s Holiday, I had to pinch myself to be sure. But it’s here! And it’s everything I hoped for! We first meet Rachel as a 27 year old hot mess and now she’s successful, sober, and approaching 50. But a phone call from a former love interest throws her life off balance. Romance, fami...

I really enjoyed this, I hadn’t realised just how much I needed a return to Rachel and the Walsh family’s world but it came at the perfect time; everything I’ve read this month has been mostly depressing. I gave a content warning for stillbirth in this book on Instagram and I’ll mark this review as a spoiler because of that. It’s quite a detailed exploration of grief and may be quite hard for a lot of people to read. It really demonstrates the skill of Marian Keyes and what an excellent writer s...

I really, really do not liked this book. I had so many hopes about it, because I love the Family Walsh dramas and fun. But the Luke and Rachel drama was very annoyng. And no need for this book been so long, MK could easily wraped up the estory a few chapters before.

‘ “The truth must dazzle gradually, Or every man be blind.” Emily Dickinson.’ I loved much of this book. First, The Walsh family is a main character here, with each of the sisters maintaining the personalities that we have come to know and love or not love as the case may be. I hate it when an author does a sequel or a series and personalities that were interesting and intriguing, that made you want to come back for more, have vanished and we have reconstituted versions. The people we were in

5 starsSO GOOD!! I'm giving it the maximum 5 stars but my real rating is more like a thousand stars!! LOL. Marian Keyes is so, so funny - dark and wry and off-the-cuff hilarious. She writes with such emotional intelligence. At times I was just in such complete awe at how deftly she layered the character development. The emotions are so raw and real and vibrant. Rachel is so well-written and memorable, a true joy to spend time with and watch her grow.I'm so glad I read the two Rachel novels back-...

3.5 starsI ended up enjoying this more than I thought I would at the beginning. I originally liked Marian Keyes' books because of the humour and the characters of the Walsh family. Those are toned down now, which I suppose makes sense as the characters have aged, but I still missed it. The story was a bit predictable and a bit eye rolling at times but overall it kept me wanting to continue reading. Before I read this I went back to re-read Rachel's holiday and now I think I might go back and re-...

Lovely, heart-warming story!! I have read one of Marian Keyes previous books in the Walsh family series and enjoyed it, so of course I decided to give this one a shot. I really enjoyed this novel. The writing is wonderful and kept me engaged from beginning to end. The characters are all lovable and well developed! I especially loved Rachels strong, resilient, character so much. This book makes me want to go now and read all the other books in the series from beginning to end. Even though this is...

Really touching addition to the Walsh family series. I have been invested in the Walsh family ever since reading Watermelon oh so many years ago. This is a family of five sisters, all of whom have their issues and problems in life and relationships. This novel revisits the sister first featured in Rachel's Holiday, when Rachel went to rehab at the Cloisters due to her drug addiction. Now, it's 20 years later and Rachel is a counselor at the Cloisters. She gets news that her ex-husband Luke's mom...

Twenty-five years ago, Rachels' Holiday was published and there are millions of us who were overjoyed when we learnt that Marian Keyes had penned the sequel. Whilst Rachel's Holiday was not the first book about the Walsh family; Watermelon takes that place and was published a couple of years prior to Rachel, there is no doubt that Rachel's Holiday was the book that really made us readers fall for the family.Again, Rachel is an absolute triumph. It has everything that any Walsh family fan could w...

Listening to the audio was such a wonderful experience. Initially I was worried because Aoife McMahon wasn't narrating, but once again it was proven that an author narrating their own work always adds something extra. This is my 17th book by Marian, and she is normally a solid 3.75 star author for me, but I think Again, Rachel offers so much more than her previous books. As always, Marian manages to mix tragedy and comedy in such a way that quite often you'll find yourself smiling while the tear...

I only read Rachel's Holiday last month in preparation for Again Rachel being the @tiredmammybookclub pick this month so I didn't have the pang of nostalgia that many did when going into this one. At a meaty 570 pages, it was 200 pages too long in my opinion. It was nice to see where life has taken Rachel after 25 years but a lot of the story felt too dragged out to me. While I know they added a bit to Rachel's own story, I just didn't care enough about her clients at The Cloisters to want to re...

I have loved Marian Keyes books for as long as I can remember. I can’t even recall which one of hers was my first, because I devoured them all as soon as I discovered them.There’s something about Marian’s style of writing that just gets into your soul. It’s funny, relatable, and adorable. There’s also times she goes on a deep dive into topics you don’t generally talk about, and you don’t even realise that’s where you’ve gone until you are there. And when it’s over, you are so glad it happened.Ag...

Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess.But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became very good, very quickly. These days, Rachel has love, family, a great job as an addiction counsellor, she even gardens. Her only bad habit is a fondness for expensive trainers.But with the sudden reappearance of a man she'd once loved, her life wobbles.She'd thought she was settled. Fixed forever. Is she about to discover that no matter what our age, everything can change?Is it time to...