num_pages: 219
description: 'Scurrilous, shameless and very funny' - Times Literary SupplementCharles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly. Charles plans his seduction meticulously, and sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as he expects...'Extravagantly sexual...highly enjoyable' - Evening Standard
language: English
title: The Rachel Papers
titlecomplete: The Rachel Papers
characters: Charles Highway, Rachel Noyes
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, British Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 10468
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Vintage Classics