Idol

SKU: 9781787635340
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Idol

SKU: 9781787635340
Author: Louise O'Neill
C-Format·Ages 18+·Mystery & Suspense
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At a glance

🖤 Fiction Tone
Sharp, unsettling, psychologically intense, socially incisive
⚡ Pace
Character-driven, tense, emotionally layered
📱 Vibes
Influencer culture, public scandal, toxic relationships, social media scrutiny
👑 Themes
Power, consent, identity, privilege, accountability
🧠 Emotional Journey
A public unraveling forces painful self-examination and confrontation with uncomfortable truths
🔥 Hook
A successful wellness influencer’s carefully curated life begins collapsing after accusations from her past resurface, exposing the dark realities hidden behind fame, privilege, and self-made mythology
👀 Perfect For
Fans of psychologically sharp contemporary fiction and social commentary

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.'

Book details

Format
C-Format
Reading age
18+
Pages
320
Publisher
Hachette Books
Published
29 September 2022
Language
English
ISBN
9781787635340

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