Louise O'Neill crea narrazioni che approfondiscono temi complessi, caratterizzate da un'acuta introspezione e intuizioni provocatorie. Attraverso le sue opere, esplora le aspettative sociali moderne e i paesaggi psicologici dei suoi personaggi. La sua prosa è avvincente, attirando i lettori a una riflessione ponderata sul mondo che ci circonda. Si è affermata come una voce significativa nella letteratura contemporanea con il suo approccio distintivo.
the conversation-starting new novel from the bestselling author of How Do You Like Me Now?
432pagine
16 ore di lettura
Set against the backdrop of a sweltering heatwave, the story unfolds during a fraught baby shower filled with underlying tensions. As the event progresses, simmering emotions and conflicts among the guests come to a head, leading to unexpected and dramatic outcomes. The narrative explores themes of relationships, expectations, and the pressures of impending parenthood, ultimately culminating in a poignant and tearful conclusion.
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?[Bokinfo].
"On the day of Henry and Keelin Kinsella's wild party at their big house a violent storm engulfed the island of Inisrun, cutting it off from the mainland. When morning broke Nessa Crowley's lifeless body lay in the garden, her last breath silenced by the music and the thunder. The killer couldn't have escaped Inisrun, but no-one was charged with the murder. The mystery that surrounded the death of Nessa remained hidden. But the islanders knew who to blame for the crime that changed them forever. Ten years later a documentary crew arrives, there to lift the lid off the Kinsella's carefully constructed lives, determined to find evidence that will prove Henry's guilt and Keelin's complicity in the murder of beautiful Nessa."--Provided by publisher.
With a pen sharp as needles, the author unpicks the kind of obsessive love to
which nobody is immune: I would challenge any reader to turn the final page
without having flushed, at least once, in recognition. Her gaze is unflinching
but never cruel; we are invited to examine, but never judge. O'Neill is a
vital and necessary presence in contemporary literature, and we are lucky to
have her. Sarah Perry
30 years after Disney's The Little Mermaid movie was released, it's time for a feminist reimagining for a new generation. "A masterpiece" Marian Keyes "A fierce torrent of a book, raging and forceful and gripping. I was swept away" Kiran Millwood Hargrave "Her prose cuts and rages and her vision of the Sea Witch is truly transformative" The Observer.Think you know the story of the Little Mermaid? Think again... Deep beneath the sea, off the cold Irish coast, Gaia is a young mermaid who dreams of freedom from her controlling father. On her first swim to the surface, she is drawn towards a human boy. She longs to join his carefree world, but how much will she have to sacrifice? What will it take for the little mermaid to find her voice? Hans Christian Andersen's original fairy tale is reimagined through a searing feminist lens, with the stunning, scalpel-sharp writing and world building that has won Louise her legions of devoted fans. A book with the darkest of undercurrents, full of rage and rallying cries: storytelling at its most spellbinding.
In a small town where everyone knows everyone, Emma O'Donovan is different. She is the special one - beautiful, popular, powerful. And she works hard to keep it that way. Until that night ... Now, she's an embarrassment. Now, she's just a slut. Now, she is nothing. And those pictures - those pictures that everyone has seen - mean she can never forget.
Sono sempre state amiche, freida e isabel. Ora hanno sedici anni, frequentano l'ultimo anno della Scuola e sono in attesa della Cerimonia dove sperano di essere scelte come compagne da uomini ricchi e potenti. L'alternativa è diventare concubine, o non essere scelte affatto e andare incontro a un destino terribile. Come tutte le altre ragazze, freida e isabel sono state prodotte in laboratorio e allevate con l'unico scopo di diventare perfette: la cura del corpo deve essere la sola ragione di vita, il loro carattere deve essere socievole e disponibile. Ora che il momento sta per arrivare la pressione è fortissima, isabel mette a rischio la sua sfolgorante bellezza perché non vuole più sottostare alle regole di questo mondo spietato... Poi finalmente i ragazzi arrivano, per scegliere le loro compagne, freida sa che deve combattere per il suo futuro, anche se per questo deve tradire la sua migliore amica, anche se significa innamorarsi quando è vietato, anche se sa che le conseguenze possono essere irreparabili... La storia di freida e isabel (senza maiuscole perché non possono essere delle vere persone) è ambientata in una società futura, dalle regole ferree e sconvolgenti. Eppure, leggendo di questo futuro immaginano, freida e isabel sono più vicine a noi di quanto possa sembrare.
