Almost Love

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.

Powerful and intense, O'Neill is one of our most uncompromising authors. - John BoyneA real, raw story of how a woman's yearning for a potent relationship can poison happiness but help her discover the shadowy parts of herself. Louise O'Neill will once again connect to the secret, intimate places of readers' minds and lives - Cecelia AhernWith a pen sharp as needles, the author unpicks the kind of obsessive love to which nobody is immune: I would challenge any reader to turn the final page without having flushed, at least once, in recognition. Her gaze is unflinching but never cruel; we are invited to examine, but never judge. O'Neill is a vital and necessary presence in contemporary literature, and we are lucky to have her. - Sarah PerryA bold, uncompromising depiction of obsessive love. Reinvents the template for the female protagonist. - Marian Keyes'Superb pockets of relatable truths . . . one of Ireland's most astute social observers' - Irish Independent'Breaks another boundary that women's fiction rarely approaches' - Irish TimesIntelligent, compelling, with considerable psychological depth - Daily MailHonest and poignant, Almost Love tells a story of love, of obsession and of reckoning with the common saying that 'if it doesn't hurt, it's not love - Elle