num_pages: 219
description: Charles 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 and Charles plans his seduction meticulously. He sets the scene with infinite care -- but it doesn’t come off quite as Charles expects.
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: 10464
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Vintage