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Only Ever Yours
- Author
- Louise O'Neill
- Narrator
- Emma Weaver
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Publish Date
- 3 September 2015
- Run Time
- 9 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
(P)2015 WF Howes Ltd
Critics Review
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Gripping ... like all the best dystopias, Only Ever Yours is about the world we live in now
Irish Times
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The Handmaid's Tale meets Mean Girls'
The Vagenda
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Utterly magnificent ... gripping, accomplished and dark
Marian Keyes
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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
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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
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Deep, dark and frighteningly believable, this book will stay with you for a long time
Marie Claire
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Compelling writing ... this only-too-real dystopia grips from beginning to end
SFX
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Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale with a post-millennial twist
The Journal.ie
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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
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Terrifying but captivating
Company
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A sparkling debut that will really make you think
Heat
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'Compelling and frightening'
Irish Examiner
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An ingenious exploration of gender roles, female identity and female competition
Buzzfeed
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'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
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'A stunning debut set in a dystopian future that has everyone talking . . . once read, will never be forgotten'
Irish Independent
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Dark, gripping . . . should be mandatory reading everywhere
The F Word
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Details
- Author
- Louise O'Neill
- Narrator
- Emma Weaver
- Duration
- 9 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 September 2015
- ISBN
- 9781784297046
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Feminism and feminist theory, Narrative theme: coming of age
Synopsis
eves are designed, not made. The School trains them to be prettyThe 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 chastityOnly the best will be chosen.And only the Men decide.(P)2015 WF Howes Ltd
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