{"product_id":"only-ever-yours","title":"Only Ever Yours","description":"Review  Gripping ... like all the best dystopias, Only Ever Yours is about the world we live in now ― Irish Times  The Handmaid's Tale meets Mean Girls' ― The Vagenda  Utterly magnificent ... gripping, accomplished and dark ― Marian Keyes  Deserves to be read by young and old, male and female, the world over in the same way Harry Potter and The Hunger Games were ― Sunday Independent  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  Deep, dark and frighteningly believable, this book will stay with you for a long time ― Marie Claire  Compelling writing ... this only-too-real dystopia grips from beginning to end ― SFX  Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale with a post-millennial twist ― The Journal.ie  The bleakness of The Catcher in the Rye, the satire of The Stepford Wives and it made me recall Nineteen Eighty-Four ... a fresh and original talent ― Irish Independent  Terrifying but captivating ― Company  A sparkling debut that will really make you think ― Heat  'Compelling and frightening' ― Irish Examiner  An ingenious exploration of gender roles, female identity and female competition ― Buzzfeed  'Terrifying and heartbreaking, O'Neill's story reads like an heir to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and MT Anderson's Feed, and, like those two books, it's sure to be discussed for years to come' ― Publisher's Weekly  'A stunning debut set in a dystopian future that has everyone talking . . . once read, will never be forgotten' ― Irish Independent  Dark, gripping . . . should be mandatory reading everywhere ― The F Word  Product Description  'Utterly magnificent . . . gripping, accomplished and dark' Marian Keyes  WINNER: Newcomer of the Year at the IBAs WINNER: Bookseller YA Prize WINNER: CBI Eilis Dillon Award Buzzfeed's Best Books Written by Women in 2014  The bestselling novel about beauty, body image and betrayal  eves are designed, not made. The School trains them to be pretty The School trains them to be good. The School trains them to Always be Willing.  All their lives, the eves have been waiting. Now, they are ready for the outside world. companion . . . concubine . . . or chastity Only the best will be chosen. And only the Men decide.  Book Description  If you're a girl, all that matters is that you are beautiful . . . The brilliant, bestselling first novel by Louise O'Neill, author of Asking for It  About the Author  Louise O'Neill is the feminist powerhouse and outspoken voice for change whose novels Only Ever Yours and Asking for It helped to start important conversations about body image and consent. Asking for It won Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2015 and stayed in the Irish Top Ten fiction chart for over a year. Only Ever Yours won Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and the Bookseller YA Prize. Film\/TV rights have been optioned on both books. Louise lives and works in West Cork, Ireland. She contributes regularly to Irish TV and radio, and has a weekly column in the Irish Examiner.","brand":"riverrun","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40904039137365,"sku":"9781784294007N","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/42c1fe95-8a3a-4550-900b-d4b45329cd74.jpg?v=1727349257","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/only-ever-yours","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}