Caroline O'Donoghue

MARGO AND MOON WERE ON TWO DIFFERENT TRAINS, IN TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS. THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE MET – BUT THEY DID. AND NOW THEY ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. A dazzlingly inventive sci-fi fantasy romance from the bestselling Irish author of The Rachel Incident and host of Sentimental Garbage, now available in paperback. "Skipshock isn’t just a book. It is, literally, a new world to dive into, and one so exquisitely conjured that you feel you live there for a while. A suspenseful, romantic, charming and really unique tale." – Matt Haig Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Awards --- Margo is on a train when she slips into another dimension, passing from the height of Irish summer into the chill of an alien winter, from a 24-hour day to one that begins and ends in just six hours. From a stranger on the train – a travelling salesman by the name of Moon – she learns that New Davia is part of a world scarred by uprisings, travel bans and world sealings. Power is determined by time – who has it, who doesn’t, and who has the freedom to travel between time zones. Can Margo find a way to get back home – or will she choose to stay in a world where her youth is slipping away faster than ever before, but where she may have found the only person with whom she would choose to spend eternity?

Set in a universe where time is key to power and privilege, this dazzlingly inventive, genre-defying fantasy romance is the first in a duology by best-selling author Caroline O'Donoghue. Margo is a troubled schoolgirl. After the death of her father, she's on her way to a new boarding school in a new city. Moon is a salesman. He makes his living traveling through a series of interconnected worlds on a network of barely used train lines. They never should have met. But when Margo suddenly appears one day on Moon's train, their fates become inextricably linked. If Margo wants to survive, she has to pass as a traveling salesman, too--except it's not that easy. Move north on the train line and time speeds up, a day passing in mere hours. Move south and time slows down--a day can last several weeks. Slow worlds are the richest ones: you live longer, your youth lasting decades. Fast worlds are sharp, cruel, and don't have time for pleasantries. Death is frequent. Salesmen die young of skipshock. That is, if they're not shot down by the Southern Guard first. As Margo moves between worlds and her attachment to Moon intensifies, she feels her youth start to slip between her fingers. But is Moon everything he seems? Is Margo? Told through the eyes of both naive Margo and desperate Moon, the unforgettable realm of Skipshock will shake the way you think about love, time, and the fabric of the universe. The first in a planned duology from the best-selling author of the Gifts series, this utterly original epic is a must-read.

"Kozhen dar - tse prokljattja" - zavershalna chastina trilogiji Kerolajn O'Donog'ju. Tse istorija pro druzhbu, vtrati, silu dukhu j vibir, jakij viznachaje dolju. Pismennitsja majsterno doslidzhuje skladnoschi pidlitkovikh perezhivan, vodnochas rozgortajuchi napruzhenij sjuzhet, u jakomu magija pereplitajetsja z realnistju, a dari stajut viprobuvannjam.Zhittja Mejv perevertajetsja z nig na golovu, koli vona rozkrivaje svij nadprirodnij dar. Ale chi mozhna tse vvazhati darom, koli kozhne odkrovennja tjagne za soboju naslidki, jaki vona ne zdatna kontroljuvati? Mejv ta jiji druzi namagajutsja zhiti zvichajnim zhittjam pidlitkiv, odnak temrjava, jaka peresliduje jikh iz samogo pochatku, staje dedali blizhchoju. Poki voni namagajutsja vidnajti silu i podolati te, scho zdajetsja neminuchim, Mejv zishtovkhujetsja zi strashnoju pravdoju: magija maje tsinu, i nikhto ne mozhe uniknuti rozplati za neji.PerekladachViktorija Zengva

Irland, 2010-talRachel är en litteraturälskande student som arbetar extra i bokhandeln. Där träffar hon den sprudlande och excentriska James som hon avgudar från första stund. Mötet blir början på en vänskap som kommer att förändra livet för dem båda. Tillsammans utforskar Rachel och James varje hörn av Corks nattliv och försöker upprätthålla en sorglös tillvaro medan finanskrisen kryper allt närmare. När Rachel blir förtjust i sin lärare Fred Byrne hjälper James till att ordna ett författarevent i bokhandeln. Målet är att hon ska förföra sin lärare efteråt, men Fred visar sig vilja något helt annat. Det som var en oskyldig förälskelse utvecklar sig snart till något mycket mer komplicerat. Kapitlet Rachel är en intelligent, kaxig och brännande roman om vänner, älskare och ett Irland i djup lågkonjunktur.»UNDERBART, BITTERLJUVT OCH ÄKTA.« Jenny Colgan

Rachel worked at a bookstore to pay for college. James came in as a temporary assistant. Now they are the best of friends who understand and complement each other and rent a house for two. Rachel has a crush on Dr. Byrne since her freshman year, but she won't enjoy reciprocated love with a married man. Not that the charming teacher resisted adultery - he was tired of betraying himself. So what's Rachel to do? To imprint a kiss in memory, destined to banish secrets from the life of a best friend forever...

THE RACHEL INCIDENT - Caroline O'Donoghue's bestselling new novel* - is out nowA darkly funny novel about being a young woman in a man's world'Like Nora Ephron's Heartburn, Promising Young Women positively thrums with relatability and honesty' IRISH INDEPENDENTJane is twenty-six, freshly dumped, and on the bottom rung of a lacklustre marketing career. She is also moonlighting as a worldly agony aunt. When an office party goes too far, she drunkenly tries out another role: the Other Woman. As Jane's affair with her much older, married boss takes off, she disregards the advice her alter ego would give and dissolves into being someone else's dirty little secret. But she's not the only one at her company to have taken the wrong path. As she finds her own health and sanity disintegrating, can she discover the truth before another promising young woman is taken under his wing?'Deeply relatable and darkly comic . . . It'll have you nodding with familiarity, thinking, laughing - and crying - as you race towards the end' GRAZIA'So brilliant, I highly recommend it' DOLLY ALDERTON'I loved it - whipsmart and so witty' MARIAN KEYES'Sharp, pithy and engaging' IRISH TIMES'Smart and spiky' METROAn Post Irish Book Awards Shortlisted - Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year*The Rachel Incident was a #2 bestseller in Ireland in June 2023

THE RACHEL INCIDENT - Caroline O'Donoghue's bestselling new novel* - is out nowCharlie's life isn't going forward - so she's decided to go backAfter a tough few years floundering around the British film industry and experimenting with amateur pornography, Charlie and her best friend Laura take a trip to her familial home on an island off the west coast of Ireland. Her father's health is rapidly declining and this could be the last chance to connect with her roots. But events on the island cause Charlie to doubt her father's childhood stories - and then there's her complicated relationship with Laura. Pursuing the truth will shatter everything she thought knew - but is that what it takes to grow up?'A gorgeous exploration of the messy and fragile nature of friendship and all the many forms of love' IRISH TIMES'A darkly humorous, keenly observed blend of millennial drift and murder mystery from a razor-sharp writer' RED'Witty, tender and insightful' GUARDIAN'A perfect page-turner. I loved it' DOLLY ALDERTON'Wonderful. Had me gripped' MARIAN KEYES*The Rachel Incident was a #2 bestseller in Ireland in June 2023

The international bestseller: a hilarious, heartfelt story of all-consuming and unexpected love'I loved it' COCO MELLORS'If you've ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did' GABRIELLE ZEVIN'Funny, nostalgic, sexy' MONICA HEISEY'Hilarious, wise and wonderfully written' GRAHAM NORTON'Easily 13/10 . . . Funny, lovely, romantic' MARIAN KEYES'I loved it ... had me reading with my hand over my heart' TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER____________________________________________________________________________Everyone in Cork remembers the Rachel Incident. But what really happened? It's simple. It's complicated. It's about love, sex and friendship. It's definitely about betrayal. And, above all, it's the story of Rachel and James, two twenty-somethings who met at a bookshop, became best friends, and spent one unforgettable year screwing up and growing up.____________________________________________________________________________Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and a TikTok Book Award - Book of the Year (UK & Ireland)'Reading it is like hearing your funniest, sexiest friend tell you the best story they know' KATHERINE RUNDELL'Sharply witty, warm-hearted and wise' GUARDIAN'O'Donoghue captures all the intensity of messy young love' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A book full of love, and it is extremely easy to love reading it' VOGUE'Chaos at its finest' STYLISTThe Rachel Incident was a #2 bestseller in Ireland in June 2023

Irland, 2010-talRachel är en litteraturälskande student som arbetar extra i bokhandeln. Där träffar hon den sprudlande och excentriska James som hon tycker om från första stund. De delar snart lägenhet och blir bästa vänner. Detta är början på en vänskap som kommer att förändra livet för dem båda. Tillsammans utforskar de varje hörn av Corks nattliv och försöker upprätthålla en sorglös tillvaro medan finanskrisen kryper allt närmare. När Rachel blir förtjust i sin lärare Fred Byrne hjälper James till att ordna ett författarevent i bokhandeln. Målet är att hon ska förföra sin lärare efteråt, men Fred visar sig vilja något helt annat. Det som var en oskyldig förälskelse utvecklar sig snart till något mycket mer komplicerat: en allt snårigare härva av hemligheter och vågspel som flätar samman Rachel, James, Fred, och Freds älskvärda och inflytelserika fru. Kapitlet Rachel utstrålar smärtsam obesvarad kärlek uppblandad med gnistrande humor. Caroline O’Donoghue har skrivit en fantastisk roman för alla som någon gång varit unga. Det är en intelligent, kaxig och brännande berättelse om vänner, älskare och ett Irland i djup lågkonjunktur. Inte minst handlar den om en ung kvinna som desperat försöker navigera däremellan.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A USA TODAY BESTSELLER - A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three - "O'Donoghue deepens the familiar coming-of-age premise with riveting moral complications." --People "If you've ever been unsure what to do with your degree in English; if you've ever wondered when the rug-buying part of your life will start...if you've ever loved the wrong person, or the right person at the wrong time...In short, if you've ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did." --Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them. When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred's glamorous, well-connected, bourgeois wife. Aching with unrequited love, shot through with delicious, sparkling humor, The Rachel Incident is a triumph.

Magic-sensitive Maeve wants to save the innocent from a dangerous cult. But how much can she delve into darkness without becoming what she fears? The exciting conclusion to the Gifts series. Big things are happening for Maeve and her tight-knit coven in Kilbeg, Ireland. Fiona lands a role on a TV show, Roe's band is poised to hit it big-time, and Lily has a new punk style and passion for tattooing. Then there's Maeve, whose magic is growing stronger and more frightening. She finds herself increasingly lashing out, doing and saying cruel things without knowing why. When her recurring dreams begin to involve her physically manifesting in other places, Maeve realizes the power she wields might not be entirely under her control. She turns to enemy-turned-maybe-friend Aaron for help, which means pushing her other friends away. But when the two learn that the religious cult the Children of Brigid is kidnapping vulnerable teenagers in preparation for a dangerous ritual, Maeve must risk letting an older magic consume her. She'll need all the protection--and love--she can get from her scattered coven.