Rachel's Holiday
Rachel's Holiday, Marian Keyes, 1998. "I stayed away from Chris because I didn't want him to get a look at my cadaver's face and red blotches. But it was hard because the attention he'd paid to me the evening before had made me feel infinitesimally better about Luke. If another man wanted to talk to me, surely I wasn't as worthless as Luke made out I was? Surreptitiously, I watched Chris as he kneaded brown bread. I sighed, wishing it was my breasts he had on the floured board." Recommended by Becky.