Jul 22, 2001 01:49 AM
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I loved rachel's holiday. It is about a girl (you've guessed it) called rachel who is addicted to drugs and alcohol but cant admit it to herself. She lives in new york with her friend but when things get out of hand she phones Rachel's parents who check her into a rehab centre called cloisters.
she pictures it with a sauna and fully equiped gym and famous people like the priory and gets an awful shock when after two days it sinks in that none of this is true.
At first the reader is lead to believe that she does'nt have a problem but you realise that she does when she finally admits it to herself.When members of her family and her closest friend and her boyfriend all attend group therapy sessions at the cloisters to help her admit that she has a very serious problem.
Slowly but surely she comes to terms with her addiction. It is a hilarious account of different stories but it makes you sit up and take notice. I felt like I was going through the whole experience with her. It was like sharing thoughts with an old friend. one minuit your laughing the next crying the whole book from start to finish was gripping and when I finally finished the book it was like saying goodbye to a friend.
It is about the middle Walsh daughter and her first novel Watermelon was about the oldest daughter Claire I wish marian Keyes would write about rachel or indeed about another member of her family as there are five daughters so we could catch up on the walshes.
I highly recommend this book for taking on holiday or even reading on the bus as it is entertaining and very hard to put down as it grips you to the last chapter
