Again, Rachel.

@ChessieFL yes, I read it in the A-Z of mammy Walsh over the summer (July I think) and it was there then but I went to look the other day and it was gone

Yes, this was in Mammy Walsh’s A-Z of the Walsh Family. However, I reread that recently (on kindle) and it’s been updated to remove the bit that said Rachel and Luke had Moses. It’s gone completely - I searched!

I don’t know whether Marian just forgot she’d invented Moses when she came to write Again, Rachel; or perhaps she hoped that because it was just one quick mention in a spin-off ebook nobody would remember.

It’s disappointing though that they’ve gone back and amended the Mammy Walsh book so there’s no way now to ‘prove’ Moses ever existed! And a bit creepy - I wonder what other kindle books get edited like that and we would never know unless we specifically remember a bit that vanishes!

I loved it! She's so talented and seems so lovely on her podcast on BBC sounds.

Seeing this thread title pop up reminded me I didnt finish this book! I used to read MK non-stop on long haul flights, it made the hours fly by (!) but this one missed the mark for me - so boring.

I used to love MK books, but I didn’t enjoy this one at all. I came close to giving up on it a couple of times, but I kept on until the end hoping to find some of the wit and insight of Rachel’s Holiday, which I enjoyed many years ago and which I remember made me laugh out loud a few times.

Rachel, Again was a depressing disappointment. The Walsh family were unfunny caricatures, especially the mother, and the storyline with Luke’s American girlfriend was too far-fetched. Rachel herself left me mostly indifferent, sometimes perplexed.

It’s been years since I read a Marian Keyes book, and I’m wondering if my tastes have changed too much to appreciate her writing now, or if she herself has changed too much to write as she used to.

I've had to stop reading the last 2/3 from her now. She used to be my absolute go to but I've found them so boring I just didn't care enough to even finish them.

The break was boring and silly and they're getting worse.

I enjoyed it but agree if needs to be clearer that it’s about baby loss so people are aware before they read it. I didn’t like the bits about the characters in the rehab clinic and the mother’s party was ridiculous. The bits with the new girlfriend and Rachel were too contrived too.

I much preferred Rachel's holiday to Again Rachel. Also, being an audible listener, I found Gerri Halligan a way better narrator than Marian Keyes.

Just don't like the inconsistencies. Rachel and Luke has a baby boy called Moses who was referenced to in another Walsh family book yet in this book it's made out Yara is their first and only child......

I read it last year when pregnant with my IVF miracle and very anxious... Definitely wasn't the right time. It's a shame as usually I love Marian Keyes.

@Miniminiminimalist Completely agree. 👍

I thought the same about the last Aisling book I read, although I haven’t read the final one yet as I’m worried I might be disappointed. 😂

I'm Irish and find the way she writes Irish people a bit lazy sometimes. Playing to the English/American reader (especially with the Walsh family books). Maybe there's heavy influence from editors at play there!

I found the first Rachel book didn't date well. Her bf was clearly a bit coercive / abusive. Yes, I'm taking this way too seriously

Thank you for the heads up about this one which I will definitely swerve!

I didn't finish it either. It was so so boring. The characters were whiny and seemed to be from some cast I had no knowledge or memory of despite reading all the other books at some point. Navel gazing and just so desperately dull. I only got a third of the way through. And it was an audiobook so not even much effort or time to read it.

I absolutely loved it. Rachel felt like an old friend. Marian Keyes is extremely talented imo.
There was one or two of hers I could take or leave but I thought Again, Rachel was beautiful

it wasn’t laugh out loud funny but it was insightful, measured and reflected how we all grow up. It was great. I loved it. Marian Keyes is very very talented.

I didn't really enjoy it either. Luke had no personality and the whole surprise party subplot was forced and not particularly funny.
I think a book of short stories about the patients in the clinic would have been better. Those parts were more interesting than the parts about the Walshes.

Same, loved it! Having read her last few books and been a bit disappointed I absolutely loved this one.

I love Marian Keyes' books usually, but I am so over the Walsh family - the sisters get more and more ghastly and unbelievable. I wonder whether Marian keeps using them because she has run out of ideas?

I put off reading this because I was scared of being disappointed but I absolutely loved it. I listened to it though with Marian Keyes narrating it and she was amazing.

I loved it

I felt the same, it just didn't have that Marian Keyes spark that kept me engaged. I did finish it but it wasn't a patch on her previous books.

I'm pretty sure MK has written about women facing abortion (& forced to travel to London to do it), recurrent miscarriages, death of partner, addiction, depression, rape & abusive relationships.

I'd agree she has a light touch but covers difficult topics.

I enjoyed Again, Rachel but probably not as much as a couple of others.

I had it on Audible, and it got me through a lot of long runs when I was marathon training last summer. I had to stop in the middle of a corn field as I was crying so much. I had kind of guessed what was coming, but it still got me.

I enjoyed it but thought it should have come with some sort of trigger warning too. People pick MK books up for a light read, which this wasn't in a lot of ways.