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'a Soul-shattering Novel That Will Leave Your Emotions Raw. This Story Will Haunt Me Forever. Everyone Should Read It' Guardian 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. For Fans Of Caitlin Moran, Marian Keyes And Jodi Picoult. Book Of The Year At The Irish Book Awards 2015. The Award-winning, Bestselling Novel About The Life-shattering Impact Of Sexual Assault, Rape And How Victims Are Treated. Det er begynnelsen av sommeren i en liten by i Irland. Emma O'Donovan er atten år gammel, vakker, glad, og selvsikker. En kveld er det fest. Alle er der. Alles øyne er på Emma. Neste morgen våkner hun på verandaen utenfor huset sitt. Hun kan ikke huske hva som skjedde. Hun vet ikke hvordan hun kom dit. Hun vet ikke hvorfor hun har vondt. Men alle andre vet. Bilder som ble tatt på festen viser i eksplisitte detaljer hva som skjedde med Emma den natta. Men noen ganger ønsker ikke folk å tro det som skjer rett foran nesa på dem, spesielt når byens helter er innblandet. Louise O'Neill skriver tankevekkende og provoserende ungdomsromaner og vant The Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Award for sin debutroman "Only ever yours" It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, beautiful, happy, confident. One night, there's a party. Everyone is there. All eyes are on Emma. The next morning, she wakes on the front porch of her house. She can't remember what happened, she doesn't know how she got there. She doesn't know why she's in pain. But everyone else does. Photographs taken at the party show, in explicit detail, what happened to Emma that night. But sometimes people don't want to believe what is right in front of them, especially when the truth concerns the town's heroes . . . BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015. The award-winning, bestselling novel about the life-shattering impact of sexual assault, rape and how victims are treated. For fans of Caitlin Moran, Marian Keyes and Jodi Picoult.