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Only Ever Yours
Louise O´neill
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Description for Only Ever Yours
Paperback. If you're a girl, all that matters is that you are beautiful .. The brilliant, bestselling first novel by Louise O'Neill, author of Asking for It Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 270.
'Utterly magnificent . . . gripping, accomplished and dark' Marian Keyes
WINNER: Newcomer of the Year at the IBAs
WINNER: Bookseller YA Prize
WINNER: CBI Eilis Dillon Award
Buzzfeed's Best Books Written by Women in 2014
The bestselling novel about beauty, body image and betrayal
eves are designed, not made.
The School trains them to be pretty
The School trains them to be good.
The School trains them to Always be Willing.
All their lives, the eves have been waiting. Now, they are ready for the outside world.
companion . . . concubine . . . or chastity
Only the best will be chosen.
And only the Men decide.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784294007
SKU
9781784294007
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
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 Only Ever Yours
Gripping ... like all the best dystopias, Only Ever Yours is about the world we live in now
Irish Times
The Handmaid's Tale meets Mean Girls'
The Vagenda
Utterly magnificent ... gripping, accomplished and dark
Marian Keyes
Deserves to be read by young and old, male and female, the world over in the same way Harry Potter and The Hunger Games were
Sunday Independent
A dark dream. A vivid nightmare. The world O'Neill imagines is frightening because it could come true. She writes with a scalpel
Jeanette Winterson
Deep, dark and frighteningly believable, this book will stay with you for a long time
Marie Claire
Compelling writing ... this only-too-real dystopia grips from beginning to end
SFX
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale with a post-millennial twist
The Journal.ie
The bleakness of The Catcher in the Rye, the satire of The Stepford Wives and it made me recall Nineteen Eighty-Four ... a fresh and original talent
Irish Independent
Terrifying but captivating
Company
A sparkling debut that will really make you think
Heat
'Compelling and frightening'
Irish Examiner
An ingenious exploration of gender roles, female identity and female competition
Buzzfeed
'Terrifying and heartbreaking, O'Neill's story reads like an heir to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and MT Anderson's Feed, and, like those two books, it's sure to be discussed for years to come'
Publisher's Weekly
'A stunning debut set in a dystopian future that has everyone talking . . . once read, will never be forgotten'
Irish Independent
Dark, gripping . . . should be mandatory reading everywhere
The F Word
Irish Times
The Handmaid's Tale meets Mean Girls'
The Vagenda
Utterly magnificent ... gripping, accomplished and dark
Marian Keyes
Deserves to be read by young and old, male and female, the world over in the same way Harry Potter and The Hunger Games were
Sunday Independent
A dark dream. A vivid nightmare. The world O'Neill imagines is frightening because it could come true. She writes with a scalpel
Jeanette Winterson
Deep, dark and frighteningly believable, this book will stay with you for a long time
Marie Claire
Compelling writing ... this only-too-real dystopia grips from beginning to end
SFX
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale with a post-millennial twist
The Journal.ie
The bleakness of The Catcher in the Rye, the satire of The Stepford Wives and it made me recall Nineteen Eighty-Four ... a fresh and original talent
Irish Independent
Terrifying but captivating
Company
A sparkling debut that will really make you think
Heat
'Compelling and frightening'
Irish Examiner
An ingenious exploration of gender roles, female identity and female competition
Buzzfeed
'Terrifying and heartbreaking, O'Neill's story reads like an heir to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and MT Anderson's Feed, and, like those two books, it's sure to be discussed for years to come'
Publisher's Weekly
'A stunning debut set in a dystopian future that has everyone talking . . . once read, will never be forgotten'
Irish Independent
Dark, gripping . . . should be mandatory reading everywhere
The F Word