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Asking For It
Louise O´neill
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Description for Asking For It
Paperback.
'A soul-shattering novel that will leave your emotions raw. This story will haunt me forever. Everyone should read it' Guardian In a small town where everyone knows everyone, Emma O'Donovan is different. She is the special one - beautiful, popular, powerful. And she works hard to keep it that way. Until that night . . . Now, she's an embarrassment. Now, she's just a slut. Now, she is nothing. And those pictures - those pictures that everyone has seen - mean she can never forget. For fans of Caitlin Moran, Marian Keyes and Jodi Picoult. BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015. The award-winning, bestselling novel about the life-shattering impact of sexual assault, rape and how victims are treated.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784293208
SKU
9781784293208
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99-2
About Louise O´neill
Louise O'Neill is the feminist powerhouse and outspoken voice for change whose novels Only Ever Yours and Asking for It helped to start important conversations about body image and consent. Asking for It won Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2015 and stayed in the Irish Top Ten fiction chart for over a year. Only Ever Yours won Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and the Bookseller YA Prize. Film/TV rights have been optioned on both books. Louise lives and works in West Cork, Ireland. She contributes regularly to Irish TV and radio, and has a weekly column in the Irish Examiner.
Reviews for Asking For It
This unflinching, timely novel asks important questions about rape culture, sexism and social media abuse, tackling taboo themes with subtlety and sensitivity
Anita Sethi
Observer
Blistering, unapologetic and vitally important
Anna James A nuanced and insightful commentary on the intricacies of teenage female friendship and the internal and external pressures that young women face as they reach adulthood
Irish Mail on Sunday
Riveting . . . a timely, gripping and vital novel.
Western Mail
A razor-sharp look at gender issues - Glasgow Herald
Glasgow Herald
O'Neill has a keen ear for the catty argot of teenage girls and her writing is razor sharp . . . unsparing and unsentimental
Independent
Bold, brave . . . and brutal
Bookseller
A brave and important book about rape culture, sexism and victim-blaming in modern society.
Telegraph
A brutal, unflinching look at the culture of slut-shaming and trial by social media. It broke my heart.
Red Magazine
A stunning portrait of a girl, a family and a town in trouble
Irish Examiner
Heartbreakingly accurate . . . handled with both sensitivity and unflinching honesty. A compelling and brave story that deserves to be read by all
Heat
A difficult, confronting and vital read
Elle
'Establishes Louise O'Neill as a literary tour de force'
Irish Independent
A brutal and shocking novel that strikes to the heart of the current debates around consent
Stylist
Brilliant, harrowing
Observer
'Riveting and essential'
New York Times
Anita Sethi
Observer
Blistering, unapologetic and vitally important
Anna James A nuanced and insightful commentary on the intricacies of teenage female friendship and the internal and external pressures that young women face as they reach adulthood
Irish Mail on Sunday
Riveting . . . a timely, gripping and vital novel.
Western Mail
A razor-sharp look at gender issues - Glasgow Herald
Glasgow Herald
O'Neill has a keen ear for the catty argot of teenage girls and her writing is razor sharp . . . unsparing and unsentimental
Independent
Bold, brave . . . and brutal
Bookseller
A brave and important book about rape culture, sexism and victim-blaming in modern society.
Telegraph
A brutal, unflinching look at the culture of slut-shaming and trial by social media. It broke my heart.
Red Magazine
A stunning portrait of a girl, a family and a town in trouble
Irish Examiner
Heartbreakingly accurate . . . handled with both sensitivity and unflinching honesty. A compelling and brave story that deserves to be read by all
Heat
A difficult, confronting and vital read
Elle
'Establishes Louise O'Neill as a literary tour de force'
Irish Independent
A brutal and shocking novel that strikes to the heart of the current debates around consent
Stylist
Brilliant, harrowing
Observer
'Riveting and essential'
New York Times