'Totally addictive' JUNO DAWSON

'Completely riveting' FABULOUS

'Glamorous, surprising' MARIAN KEYES

'Utterly gripping. Unsettling' LUCY FOLEY

'An absolute page turner' CECILIA AHERN

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Samantha Miller is everything her fans want to be. Her three million followers hang on her every word - she's an oracle, telling them how to be their best, true selves.

To promote her new number-one bestseller, she's written an essay about her sexual awakening as a teenager with her best friend, Lisa. She's never told a soul, now she's telling the world.

But Lisa's memory of that night is far darker.

It's Sam's word against Lisa's - so whose 'truth' is really a lie?

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'Darkly delicious' ELIZABETH DAY

'Compulsive, brilliant' ABIGAIL DEAN

'Utterly compelling' HOLLY BOURNE

'Clever and beautifully crafted' OBSERVER

About the Author

Louise O'Neill grew up in Clonakilty, a small town in West Cork, Ireland. Her first novel, Only Ever Yours, was released in 2014 and won the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, the Eilis Dillon Award for a First Book and the Bookseller's inaugural YA Book Prize. Her second novel, Asking For It, was published in September 2015 to widespread critical acclaim. It spent 52 consecutive weeks in the Irish top 10 bestseller list. Both novels have been optioned for screen.

Louise's first novel for adults, Almost Love, was published in 2018, followed shortly by The Surface Breaks, her feminist re-imagining of The Little Mermaid. Her second novel for adults, After the Silence, was published in 2020 and was an instant bestseller in Ireland. It won Crime Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and has also been optioned for screen. Idol is her third adult novel.

Louise contributes regularly to Irish TV and radio, and has a weekly column in the Irish Sunday Times.

Reviews
An absolute page turner; addictive and refreshingly twisted. * Cecelia Ahern *
By turns utterly gripping and unsettling, this gorgeously written novel is a fascinating look at the ills of influencer culture. A book for our times. * Lucy Foley *
IDOL is darkly delicious and asks important questions of fame, influence, self-help and what it really means when we click "follow". Louise O'Neill is one of those rare authors whose writing grips you from the first page, but who also makes you think. I will read anything she writes. * Elizabeth Day *
Louise O'Neill steps into areas that lesser writers are daunted by. She is a pioneer. * Marian Keyes *
O'Neill continues to push at the murk around contemporary taboos, shining a compassionate and compelling light on what drives our appearance-obsessed society, marking us all as complicit. IDOL is a gripping, shocking read I could not put down. * Kiran Millwood Hargrave *



Book Information
ISBN 9781804990865
Author Louise O'Neill
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Penguin (Transworld)
Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
Weight(grams) 220g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 126mm * 19mm