In Again, Rachel, we return to the Cloisters where she had been in rehab, but is now a counsellor. “In Is Anybody Out There and The Mystery of Mercy Close, Rachel was already an addictions counsellor, but I don’t remember deciding that she would work at the Cloisters. I knew that at some stage her addiction would revisit, and I thought a good device would be to use the stories of others. Also, I wanted to echo what was so charming about Rachel’s Holiday." If there’s a core theme in Again, Rachel, it’s that of forgiveness: forgiveness of oneself for human failings. Forgiveness for loved ones who don’t always behave in ways we might wish. Forgiveness for the adversities – seemingly perverse in their cruelty – that life sometimes throws at us. Again, Rachel has all of Keyes’s trademark wit, humour and whip-smart dialogue, but it’s also a novel teeming with compassion and redemption. Presents Richard Osman’s House of Games, in which celebrities compete to win prizes such as cushions or bread bins. Also appears on shows such as Would I Lie to You?, Have I Got News for You, QIand Taskmaster.

This book was such an emotional journey. It is touching, tender and heartbreaking but with the right touch of humor and smiles to save it from being a tear jerker. The author handles some really tough, deep, emotional issues with such finesse. And overall there is always a thread of Hope, strength and kindness that I really connected with. But the craic notwithstanding, these writers have more than whopping sales figures in common: Keyes was an alcoholic; Osman suffers from food addiction. As he says, “You are either controlling it or not controlling it.” There hasn’t been a day Osman hasn’t battled with food since he was nine (no surprise, the time his father left), around the same age that Keyes just knew “something was wrong, something was broken. Something needed painkilling.” At first it was sugar for her too, then books. They both mainlined Enid Blyton for a while. “But then alcohol was the big one,” she says. “The drug of choice. It was the thing that helped me cross over from feeling like a defective human being to being able to pass myself off as normal. But it was a problem immediately because I always wanted more.”

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The people who care about addicts have it very hard. So much of their time they’re plagued by suspicion, fear, thwarted hope, frustration, anger, and then, when they’ve finally convinced their loved one to get help, they usually feel terrible guilt.”

Again, Rachel has all the ingredients that make Marian's books so uniquely special - warmth, humour, sadness and depth. It's absolutely perfect' 5* Reader Review About Khun Aguero Agnis to Po Bidau Bellerir) " A cute little blue kitten just crawled in from outside. And I'd really like to watch him die slowly in a cage. You can always just kill him of you get tired of playing with him." [50] Thanks is extended to Penguin Books Australia/Tandem Global Collective for providing a free copy of this book for review purposes.After lacerating Edin Dan's legs) " Don't talk so impetuously... when you know nothing. I... haven't done anything wrong." [33] I loved the bits with Rachel's patients at the Cloisters, each one of them came fully into their own right and I felt connected to their journeys - even though they were not the main focus of the story. Rachel's goal) " Yes. There's nothing in our way. An open sky. And when night falls, the stars rise. It's unlike the night we fear, it's truly beautiful, the true night that comes. I definitely... will go there someday. Definitely..." [29]