Louise O'Neill grew up in Clonakilty, a small town in West Cork,
Ireland. Her first novel, Only Ever Yours, was released in 2014 and
won the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book
Awards, the Eilís Dillon Award for a First Book and the
Bookseller's inaugural YA Book Prize. Her second novel, Asking For
It, was published in September 2015 to widespread critical acclaim.
It spent 52 consecutive weeks in the Irish top 10 bestseller list.
Both novels have been optioned for screen.
Louise's first novel for adults, Almost Love, was published in
2018, followed shortly by The Surface Breaks, her feminist
re-imagining of The Little Mermaid. Her second novel for adults,
After the Silence, was published in 2020 and was an instant
bestseller in Ireland. It won Crime Novel of the Year at the Irish
Book Awards and has also been optioned for screen. Idol is her
third adult novel.
Louise contributes regularly to Irish TV and radio, and has a
weekly column in the Irish Sunday Times.
An absolute page turner; addictive and refreshingly twisted.
*Cecelia Ahern*
By turns utterly gripping and unsettling, this gorgeously written
novel is a fascinating look at the ills of influencer culture. A
book for our times.
*Lucy Foley*
IDOL is darkly delicious and asks important questions of fame,
influence, self-help and what it really means when we click
"follow". Louise O'Neill is one of those rare authors whose writing
grips you from the first page, but who also makes you think. I will
read anything she writes.
*Elizabeth Day*
Louise O'Neill steps into areas that lesser writers are daunted by.
She is a pioneer.
*Marian Keyes*
O'Neill continues to push at the murk around contemporary taboos,
shining a compassionate and compelling light on what drives our
appearance-obsessed society, marking us all as complicit. IDOL is a
gripping, shocking read I could not put down.
*Kiran Millwood Hargrave*
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