Rachel Incident (2023)

Rachel and James turn their Cork bookshop friendship into a private world of jokes, ambitions and badly managed feelings. O'Donoghue lets the retrospective narration hold affection for their younger selves alongside a clear view of the harm they cause. Economic insecurity and reproductive choices make the apparently comic complications consequential. The intimacy of the telling supplies considerable pleasure, while sex, secrecy and unequal power keep the comedy emotionally complicated.