Only Ever Yours

Reviews

Winner of the 2014 Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Award at the BGE Irish Book Awards "A beautifully written, remarkable debut. the near-future world, after a climate-change apocalypse, is fully imagined and vividly realized. The claustrophobic, insular lives of 16-year-old girls as they struggle against themselves and each other will ring eerily true for today's teens." - Common Sense Media "A haunting dystopian novel for fans of The Handmaid's Tale"—Refinery29 "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 "Utterly magnificent . . . gripping, accomplished and dark."—Marian Keyes "[A] terrifying but captivating book."—Company magazine "Disturbing, provocative . . . I was utterly captivated from beginning to end."—Gabriel Byrne ("In Treatment," "The Usual Suspects," "Miller's Crossing) "Dark and thought-provoking... There are some good Logan's Run shivers, and it is beautifully written."—Tara Flynn, The Irish Times "Only Ever Yours is a chilling dystopian fantasy... It has the bleakness of Catcher in the Rye, the satire of The Stepford Wives and it made me recall how scared I felt reading Nineteen Eighty-Four... But by far the best thing about Louise O' Neill's book is that it is well written, by a fresh and original talent."—Anne Cunningham, Irish Independent "Compelling writing and a brutal conclusion means this only-too-real dystopia grips from beginning to end."—SFX Magazine "O'Neill has talent to burn; this dystopian YA debut is both compelling and frightening."—Irish Examiner "If the Hunger Games series was your guilty pleasure then young Irish author Louise O' Neill's debut novel Only Ever Yours is about to become another... [It] explores the contemporary pressure on women and girls to be 'perfect' in this dark and gripping narrative."—Irish Tatler "An ingenious exploration of gender roles, female identity, and female competition."—Buzzfeed "Deep, dark and frighteningly believable. This story will stay with you for a long time."—Marie Claire "A witty and unsettling story...Hopefully Only Ever Yours will be read widely."—The Telegraph "Unbelievably believable, compelling, utterly riveting... Whilst it is dark, uncompromising and utterly daunting to read as a woman, it is and should be a classic in the making."—Liz Loves Books "O'Neill's story reads like an heir to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and M.T. Anderson's Feed, and, like those books, it's sure to be discussed for years to come."—Publishers Weekly, starred review Expand reviews