Caroline O'Donoghue

Maeve’s strangely astute tarot readings make her the talk of the school, until a classmate draws a chilling and unfamiliar card—and then disappears. After Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while cleaning out a closet during her in-school suspension, she quickly becomes the most sought-after diviner at St. Bernadette’s Catholic school. But when Maeve’s ex–best friend, Lily, draws an unsettling card called The Housekeeper that Maeve has never seen before, the session devolves into a heated argument that ends with Maeve wishing aloud that Lily would disappear. When Lily isn’t at school the next Monday, Maeve learns her ex-friend has vanished without a trace. Shunned by her classmates and struggling to preserve a fledgling romance with Lily’s gender-fluid sibling, Roe, Maeve must dig deep into her connection with the cards to search for clues the police cannot find—even if they lead to the terrifying Housekeeper herself. Set in an Irish town where the church’s tight hold has loosened and new freedoms are trying to take root, this sharply contemporary story is witty, gripping, and tinged with mysticism.

Maeve Chambers ist eine Idiotin – zumindest verglichen mit ihrer Familie voller Genies. Und weil sie ihre Freundin Lily vergrault hat. Erst als sie im Schulkeller ein Tarot-Kartenspiel findet, zeigt sich ihr wahres Talent. Denn quasi über Nacht macht sie den Mädchen aus ihrer Klasse beängstigend akkurate Vorhersagen. Dann verschwindet Lily, nachdem Maeve ihr ungefragt die Karten legt. Schnell wird klar, dass übernatürliche Kräfte im Spiel sind. Und es braucht besondere Talente, um Lily zu retten. Zusammen mit Lilys nichtbinärem Bruder Roe und Mitschülerin Fiona begibt sich Maeve auf eine gefährliche Suche.

Als die junge Studentin Rachel während ihres Nebenjobs im Buchladen auf James trifft, ist es Freundschaft auf den ersten Blick. Der temperamentvolle James lädt Rachel sofort ein, seine Mitbewohnerin zu werden. Um wiederum Rachels angebeteten Literaturprofessor Dr. Fred Byrne näherzukommen und ihn zu verführen, organisieren James und Rachel eine Lesung im Buchladen, die sich am Ende ganz anders entwickelt als gedacht. Denn Fred Byrne verfolgt seine eigenen Interessen. Und so verstricken sich die Leben dieser drei Menschen vor dem Hintergrund der Finanzkrise in Cork immer rasanter ineinander.

Una novela que captura la energía de los veinte años y la intensidad, el caos y la torpeza de las primeras veces. Rachel es una universitaria irlandesa que trabaja en una librería para pagarse la carrera. Allí conoce a un chico de su edad, James; no tardarán mucho en hacerse íntimos amigos y animarse a compartir un piso tan barato como destartalado. Ambos buscan abrirse camino en la Irlanda de la Gran Recesión mientras gestionan sus caóticas vidas: James está harto de que la gente piense que no quiere salir del armario y Rachel fantasea sin parar con el doctor Byrne, un profesor casado al que intenta seducir con un arriesgado plan de imprevisibles resultados. Con una mirada tan inteligente como cómica, Caroline O’Donoghue se adentra en las aspiraciones, locuras y torpezas de la juventud para construir una entrañable oda a la energía de los veinte años, a las amistades que forjamos entonces y que dejan una huella permanente. El factor Rachel captura como pocas novelas los placeres y los sinsabores de esta etapa, la intensidad de los primeros amores y el desconcierto en el que nos sume el paso a la edad adulta.

A spellbinding supernatural teen drama and final book in the Gifts series from a New York Times bestselling author. With the return of the Housekeeper on the cards, Maeve must find out everything she can about the vengeful tarot spirit in order to finally defeat her. Crossing over into a parallel dimension inside the old school building, she explores the history of the Housekeeper – and spends too long in a world and a mind not her own. With the Children of Brigid closing in once more, and Maeve's friend group now fractured across Ireland, can they hope to ultimately save the town – and Maeve – from the grip of a power greater than they ever imagined?

Rachel vive a Cork, in Irlanda, ha vent’anni e si paga gli studi lavorando in libreria; è alta e un po’ goffa, ma brillante e piena di risorse. Diventa coinquilina di James, sfrontato e intelligente, e tra loro nasce un’amicizia intensa e totale come un colpo di fulmine. Finché Rachel non rivela a James di avere una cotta per il suo professore di Letteratura, Fred Byrne. L’amico la aiuta a elaborare un piano per sedurlo, ma le cose non vanno come previsto: il professore si innamora di James, e allo stesso tempo Rachel inizia uno stage nella casa editrice di Deenie, l’ignara moglie di Byrne. Rachel fa di tutto per coprire la relazione dei due amanti e non ne parla nemmeno con Carey, il suo primo vero amore, ma il castello di bugie diventa troppo grande e la situazione le sfugge di mano, mettendo in pericolo la sua reputazione, il suo lavoro e il suo futuro. Caroline O’Donoghue dà vita a una moderna Bridget Jones, e racconta la vertigine che si prova scegliendo di restare leali alle persone che amiamo senza per questo tradire le nostre aspirazioni. Costruito come una commedia degli equivoci, La variabile Rachel è un’ode alle scelte folli ed eroiche dei vent’anni e all’amicizia più pura, capace di annullare ogni egoismo e di far sbocciare la migliore versione di sé.

Kiedy Maeve Chambers, samotniczka bez specjalnych widoków na życie towarzyskie, dostaje zadanie posprzątania starej szkolnej szafy – nie wie, że jej życie się zmieni. Przypadkiem trafia na zakurzoną paczkę kart tarota i…natychmiast staje się najbardziej rozchwytywaną wróżbitką w katolickiej szkole św. Bernadetty. Wszystko idzie dobrze, dopóki jej była najlepsza przyjaciółka, Lily, nie wyciąga karty o nazwie Gospodyni, której Maeve nigdy wcześniej nie widziała. Sesja przeradza się w kłótnię, a następnego dnia Lily znika bez śladu. Czy Maeve wraz z nowymi przyjaciółmi, Fioną i Roe, zdołają odnaleźć Lily? Czy sekretne dary, które otrzymali, wystarczą, by sprowadzić dziewczynę z powrotem, zanim zniknie na dobre? Skrząca się dowcipem, trzymająca w napięciu i przyprawiona mistycyzmem powieść o tym, że czasem, warto uwierzyć w coś pozornie niemożliwego.

Esoterismo, ingenio y misticismo... Una lectura mágica. Las sagaces lecturas del tarot de Maeve la convierten en la comidilla del colegio, hasta que una compañera de clase saca una carta escalofriante y desconocida... Y después desaparece.

For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG or SEARCH PARTY - Caroline O'Donoghue's debut is a gothic, darkly witty novel about sex, power, work and being a young woman in a man's world. "I don't know why it never occurs to me to ask for more: to be taken to dinner, or to be given a promise, or at the very least, an explanation of why things aren't working out with his wife. I know exactly what Jolly would say: I know because I've written words to mistresses before. Hundreds of them." On the day of her 26th birthday, Jane is recently single, adrift at her job, and intrigued by why Clem - her much older, married boss - is singing to her. Meanwhile her alter-ego, the online agony aunt Jolly Politely, has all the answers. She's provided thousands of strangers with insightful and occasionally cutting insights to contemporary life's most vexing questions. When she and Clem kiss at a party, Jane does not follow the advice she would give to her readers as Jolly: instead she plunges head-first into an affair. One that could jeopardise her friendships, her career and even her life.

'Do you know what céad mile fáilte means?' 'A hundred thousand welcomes.' 'Not a hundred thousand homes. Not a hundred thousand "stay here's".' Charlie Regan's life isn't going forward, so she's decided to go back. After a tough few years floundering around the British film industry, experimenting with amateur pornography and watching her father's health rapidly decline, she and her best friend Laura journey to her ancestral home of Clipim, an island off the west coast of Ireland. Knowing this could be the last chance to connect with her dad's history before she loses him, Charlie clings to the idea of her Irish roots offering some kind of solace. But she'll find out her heritage is about more than clichés and clover-foamed Guinness. When the girls arrive at Clipim, Charlie begins to question both her difficult relationship with Laura and her father's childhood stories. Before long, she's embroiled in a devastating conspiracy that's been sixty years in the making . . . and it's up to her to reveal the truth of it. With a sharp eye and sour tongue, Caroline O'Donoghue delivers a delicious contemporary fable of prodigal return. Blisteringly honest, funny and moving, it grapples with love, friendship and the struggle of second-generation immigrants trying to belong.

A spellbinding supernatural teen drama - and sequel to All Our Hidden Gifts. Maeve and her friends have revealed their powers and banded together as a coven: Roe can pick locks, Lily sends sparks flying, Maeve can read minds and Fiona can heal any injury. And even better than their newfound talents? Roe and Maeve are officially an item. But with strange things happening at school, and old enemies appearing in new places, it soon becomes clear their powers are attracting all the wrong attention. It's not long before Maeve's gift start to wane, drained by someone - or something - that's hiding even from her second sight... The brilliant second installment in the Hidden Gifts series, with further titles to come.

Where would I start, and how would it even make sense? How could you understand the year in Shandon Street unless you were there, with us, living it? Rachel Murray is twenty-one years old, platonically infatuated with her housemate James, and less-than-platonically infatuated with her enigmatic, married English professor Dr Byrne. Over the course of a year, as Rachel and James's lives become more and more deeply entwined with those of Dr Byrne and his perfect wife Deenie, tensions rise, and a shocking secret threatens everything they hold dear. The Rachel Incident is a sharp, poignant, and beautifully told story of losing and finding yourself and the lengths we will go to for those we love.