Rhino What You Did Last Summer

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly returns in Paul Howard's ninth installment of the popular Irish series. When his wife Sorcha leaves for Los Angeles, Ross follows her there in an attempt to win her back. The story chronicles Ross and his family's unexpected rise to reality TV fame through a show called "Ross, His Mother, His Wife and Her Lover." Meanwhile, Ross faces pressure to undergo cosmetic surgery, and various family members deal with their own challenges and ambitions in America. This 2009 novel was a commercial success in Ireland, ranking as the seventh best-selling book that year. The fish-out-of-water narrative takes the usually Dublin-based characters into new territory as they navigate American culture and the world of reality television. The book continues Howard's satirical examination of Celtic Tiger era Irish society, exploring themes of celebrity culture, relationship dynamics, and identity - both personal and cultural - through Ross's characteristically self-absorbed perspective.

Readers describe this book as similar in tone and humor to earlier Ross O'Carroll-Kelly novels, following familiar characters and Rugby-focused storylines. Readers liked: - The dialogue between Ross and his father Charles - References to Irish economic downturn and politics - Continuation of running jokes from previous books - Ross's interactions with his baby daughter Readers disliked: - More predictable plot compared to earlier books - Less character development - Some jokes feeling repetitive - Heavy reliance on knowledge of prior books Ratings: Goodreads: 3.9/5 (126 ratings) Amazon UK: 4.4/5 (15 reviews) "Not the strongest in the series but still makes me laugh" - Goodreads reviewer "The Charles-Ross dynamic saves an otherwise average entry" - Amazon UK review "You need to read the previous books to get most of the humor" - Goodreads reviewer

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🌟 The Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series has sold over 1 million copies in Ireland, making it one of the country's most successful literary franchises. 📚 Author Paul Howard began his career as a sports journalist and originally created Ross O'Carroll-Kelly as a satirical newspaper column in the Sunday Tribune. 🎭 The character Ross O'Carroll-Kelly has become such a cultural phenomenon in Ireland that several stage plays based on the books have been successfully produced at Dublin's Olympia Theatre. 🌍 The series title character's name is a play on typical South Dublin names, where double-barreled surnames are associated with upper-middle-class privilege. 🎬 Los Angeles, where this book is set, has the largest Irish-American population on the West Coast of the United States, with approximately 300,000 people of Irish descent.