Only Ever Yours - Couverture souple

O'Neill, Louise

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784294004 ISBN 13 : 9781784294007

Editeur : riverrun, 2015

Synopsis

freida and isabel have been best friends their whole lives. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year at the School, they expect to be selected as companions - wives to wealthy and powerful men. The alternative - life as a concubine - is too horrible to contemplate. But as the intensity of the final year takes hold, the pressure to be perfect mounts. isabel starts to self-destruct, putting her beauty - her only asset - in peril. And then into this sealed female environment, the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride. freida must fight for her future - even if it means betraying the only friend, the only love, she has ever known...

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

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)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: riverrun
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784294004
• ISBN 13: 9781784294007
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 400