RACHEL’S BACK! Marian Keyes and Penguin Michael Joseph launch Again, Rachel, the eagerly awaited follow up to multi-million copy bestseller, Rachel’s Holiday.
The cover of Again, Rachel, published 17 February 2022 with Penguin Michael Joseph.
Marking a major publishing landmark for multi-million copy bestselling author, Marian Keyes, and her millions of fans across the world, Penguin Michael Joseph will publish a new edition of Rachel’s Holiday on 11th November 2021, in anticipation of her brand new novel Again, Rachel (17th February 2022), in which Marian will revisit one of her most loved characters almost twenty-five years on.
Rachel is back! Back in Ireland. Back in The Cloisters – as a counsellor, thankfully, not a client. And back to face the demons of her past as the man she has tried very hard to forget returns and all her certainties – of life, love and family – wobble . . .
This morning, over 200 people took to their yoga mats in front of Tower Bridge for a special class in partnership with MoreYoga to celebrate the announcement of Again, Rachel, with a similar event happening in Dublin.
Marian has written some of the most widely loved, genre-defying novels of the past thirty years. Her fans are irresistibly drawn by her warmth and wit, fearless honesty, relatable characters and relationships, and sheer storytelling magic. However, throughout her incredible writing career, which has included the bestselling novels Grown Ups, The Break, and Watermelon, Keyes’s ardent fans have kept Rachel Walsh – a young woman struggling with life, love and addiction – especially close to their hearts.
Coming together for a brand-new foreword of Rachel’s Holiday, which was originally published in Ireland nearly twenty-five years ago (December 1997), prominent fans of the book, including Lorraine Kelly, Graham Norton and Liane Moriarty have been describing what the book has meant to them:
‘As fresh, funny and fabulous today as it was 25 years ago.’ - Lorraine Kelly
‘Fearless and provocative, without ever having to raise her voice.’ - Graham Norton
‘A masterclass in the art of writing.’ - Liane Moriarty
‘Boldly tells you that you’re not alone.’ - Emma Freud
Louise Moore - Managing Director at Penguin Michael Joseph: ‘It’s hard to believe that it’s almost twenty-five years since the publication of Marian’s landmark novel Rachel’s Holiday. It defined a new kind of commercial, relevant writing, and has now become a modern classic. And as the first book I ever published with Marian, I am so very honoured and excited to be publishing Again, Rachel, Rachel’s follow-up story. Marian has rightly been praised for redefining popular fiction. Her deeply honest, nuanced portrayals of women at all stages of their lives, through the loveable, flawed heroines who inhabit her novels, have inspired an army of loyal readers. Marian can make you laugh and make you cry in the space of a page, she constantly surprises, she never under delivers. We at Penguin Michael Joseph love and admire Marian, and are incredibly proud to bring Again, Rachel to her legions of fans across the world.’
ABOUT MARIAN KEYES
Both critically acclaimed and commercially unstoppable, Marian’s fourteenth novel Grown Ups went straight to No.1 in hardback and paperback in four global territories: UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Audiobook of the Year. Marian inspired and entertained countless readers, but also the next generation of writers too, as chair of judges for the Comedy Women in Print prize, a sponsor of the Curtis Brown Creative Marian Keyes scholarship, and most recently ran her own hugely popular Instagram Live series, which brought free creative writing courses to thousands of viewers. Marian also uses her position to raise some of the most challenging issues of our time, including addiction, immigration, depression, domestic violence and the Repeal the Eighth campaign.
In addition to her novels, Marian has written two collections of journalism, as well as been the star of the second series of her hit show Between Ourselves aired on BBC Radio 4 at the start of 2021, and based on her bestselling work of nonfiction Making It Up As I Go Along. Marian is based in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.