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Asking For It by Louise O'Neill - ISBN: 9781784293208
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A town’s perfect girl, destroyed by a night she can’t forget.

Asking For It

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    368 pages

  • Release Date

    12 July 2016

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Summary

‘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 ever…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784293208
ISBN-10:1784293202
Author:Louise O'Neill
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:riverrun
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:12 July 2016
Weight:254g
Dimensions:25mm x 130mm x 197mm
Audience Age:14
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Asking For It by Louise O'Neill - ISBN: 9781784293208
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Critics Review

Riveting and essential - New York Times

A brutal and shocking novel that strikes to the heart of the current debates around consent - Stylist

Establishes Louise O’Neill as a literary tour de force - Irish Independent

A difficult, confronting and vital read - Elle

Heartbreakingly accurate … handled with both sensitivity and unflinching honesty. A compelling and brave story that deserves to be read by all - Heat

Brilliant, harrowing - Observer

A stunning portrait of a girl, a family and a town in trouble - Irish Examiner

A brutal, unflinching look at the culture of slut-shaming and trial by social media. It broke my heart. - Red Magazine

About The Author

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.

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