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  • Published: 12 May 2022
  • ISBN: 9781473596184
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Idol

The must-read, addictive and compulsive number one bestseller 2022

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EBook
12 May 2022
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12 May 2022
Paperback
25 July 2023
Hardback
12 June 2022
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The breakout novel from a standout voice in fiction - author of ASKING FOR IT and AFTER THE SILENCE. IDOL is a sure-fire conversation starter destined for the top of the bestseller list.

'IDOL is fresh, glamorous, and surprising, taking an issue we all care about and with a deft twist, recalibrating our position. It dazzles us before revealing the darkness at its heart. Louise O'Neill is not afraid to take on a taboo but somehow always makes it utterly compelling. This is such an exciting book.' Marian Keyes
'Follow your heart and speak your truth.'

For Samantha Miller's young fans - her 'girls' - she's everything they want to be. She's an oracle, telling them how to live their lives, how to be happy, how to find and honour their 'truth'.

And her career is booming: she's just hit three million followers, her new book Chaste has gone straight to the top of the bestseller lists and she's appearing at sell-out events.

Determined to speak her truth and bare all to her adoring fans, she's written an essay about her sexual awakening as a teenager, with her female best friend, Lisa. She's never told a soul but now she's telling the world. The essay goes viral.

But then - years since they last spoke - Lisa gets in touch to say that she doesn't remember it that way at all. Her memory of that night is far darker. It's Sam's word against Lisa's - so who gets to tell the story? Whose 'truth' is really a lie?

'You put yourself on that pedestal, Samantha. You only have yourself to blame.'
  • Published: 12 May 2022
  • ISBN: 9781473596184
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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About the author

Louise O'Neill

Louise O’Neill is a bestselling author from Clonakilty, West Cork. Her debut novel, Only Ever Yours, won multiple awards including the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year and the inaugural YA Book Prize. Her second novel, Asking For It, spent 52 consecutive weeks in the Irish top 10 and was awarded the Michael L Printz honour by the American Library Association. She has since published The Surface Breaks, a feminist retelling of The Little Mermaid, which was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards, and three novels for adults: Almost Love, After the Silence — named Crime Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2020 — and Idol, which went straight into the Irish book charts at #1. Her memoir, A Bigger Life, is coming in autumn 2026. Whatever Happened to Madeline Stone? is her latest novel.
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Praise for Idol

A literary tour de force

Irish Independent

A vital and necessary presence in contemporary literature

Sarah Perry

Louise O'Neill steps into areas that lesser writers are daunted by. She is a pioneer.

Marian Keyes

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