""Set in Cork in 2010, Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James - and it is 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,""
""Set against the backdrop of the financial crash and its impact on Ireland, Rachel and James "run riot" with their "bohemian existence" in Cork.""
""When Rachel admits to a huge crush on her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a launch for his new book at the store, with the hope that she might seduce him afterwards,""
""But Fred, as it turns out, has other desires. So begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred's wife Deenie, an incredibly cool and well-connected literary editor.""
Ellis Howard, 29, will play the leading character James in Channel 4 comedy drama The Rachel Incident, adapted from Caroline O'Donoghue's 2023 novel. Máiréad Tyers will portray Rachel, a bookstore student in Cork in 2010 who quickly forms a life-changing friendship with the effervescent, insistently heterosexual James. The story unfolds against the financial crash and follows Rachel's crush on her married professor Dr. Fred Byrne, with James helping stage a book launch to aid her. Fred's different desires trigger secrets and compromises that entangle James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred's wife Deenie. Daniel Ings and Sarah Greene join the cast, alongside several other actors.
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