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Asking for It
Author_Louise O'Neill
award winning fiction
beauty
body
body image
body politics
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compelling
consent
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Elizabeth Moss
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femininity
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Handmaid's Tale
identity
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Lindy West
literary fiction
Margaret Atwood
Marian Keyes
Mean Girls
prizewinning writers
sexuality
sharp and intelligent
The Handmaids Tale
The Heart Goes Last
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Product details
- ISBN 9781784294007
- Weight: 287g
- Dimensions: 131 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jul 2015
- Publisher: Quercus Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'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.
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.
