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Asking for it

Louise O'Neill

2015120 pagesabout 2–3 hours
2015
first published
  • 2015riverrun · 345 pages · ENGISBN 9781848664173
  • 2016Quercus · 324 pages · ENGISBN 9781681445373
  • 2018Hern Books, Limited, Nick · 120 pages · ENGISBN 9781848428201
  • 2018Quercus NA · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9781681445359

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....

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